Re: Conflicts/Replaces and dpkg
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:28:44PM +0200 , Christoph Martin wrote:
> Denis Barbier writes:
> > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Christoph Martin wrote:
> >
> > > Denis Barbier writes:
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > Any comment?
> > >
> > > Ok. But I think it will not go into potato.
> >
> > Hmmm, i believed these bugs prevent upgrading from slink.
>
> Why do you think so? It worked all the time. I would not work if we
did you have xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2)? The problem is, tht old dpkg ignore other
than the first one.
Petr Cech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
* Joy notes some people think "Unix" is a misspelling of "Unics" which is a misspelling of "Emacs" :)
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