Re: Conflicts/Replaces and dpkg

[Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:57:55PM +0200 , Denis Barbier wrote:
> I did not read any clear statement on debian-devel about the problem
> reported by Josip.
> 
> Whatever the solution is, teTeX must be installed after dpkg is
> upgraded. So i feel like we could remove the search of old TeX packages
> in tetex-*.preinst.

I think the solution was dpkg --assert-multi-conrep and
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>=1.6.8). This is used it vim 5.6.070-1

				Petr Cech
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