Bug#225004: tetex-extra: Type1 fonts should be in a separate package

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
>
>> Replaces is not needed for this. According to policy, the combination of
>> Replaces and Conflicts is only intended to be used together with a
>> third, Provides.
>
> Not agreed. :)
>
> If you reread § 7.5.2, I think you will understand like me that 7.5.2 is
> about using Conflicts and Replaces together. Optionnally, the package
> declared as being replaced *can* be a virtual package, like the
> mail-transport-agent example.
>
> My understanding of Policy about Replaces is:
>
>   1. If a) the package foo contains *some* files f[i] that are also bar;
>
>         b) foo and bar can be installed together (they don't conflict)
>            and bar will not break if the f[i] files it provides have
>            been replaced by those provided by foo;
>
>      then foo should declare a Replaces: bar (and no Conflicts: bar).

Agreed :)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie