Steve Langasek wrote: > Breaks and Replaces are both asymmetric relationships. and > >> If I unpack two packages, one having Breaks+Replaces, in the other order, I >> will have a file conflict. > > No, you won't. Why would you think so? By logic. I didn't see anything to prevent them. However, as dpkg disagree with me too, I started to wonder if policy in 'Packages can declare in their control file that they should overwrite files in certain other packages, or completely replace other packages' actually means two-way dependency? And is it obvious to anyone but me? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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