Re: Conflicts/Replaces and dpkg
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Petr Cech writes:
> > 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
>
> Is the Pre-Depends line in control enough, or do we need changes
> elsewhere?
On http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0004/msg01502.html
Wichert suggest to put this line *and* `dpkg --assert-multi-conrep' in
preinst.
And this is what Petr suggested too.
Denis
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