[DRE-maint] Bug#498700: Missing upgrade path from libdb4.2-ruby1.8 to libdb-ruby1.8

[Frans Pop]

On Sunday 28 September 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Isn't this a bug of our upgrading tools, that should prefer to install
> a new, non-obsolete package A that Provides: B, rather than keeping a
> no-longer-present-in-the-lists B installed?

Possibly. But as long as those tools don't support that it will have to be 
solved in the packages themselves.

Feel free to clone the bug to apt/aptitude/whatever if you feel that 
should be implemented, but I'd think that would be squeeze material, not 
lenny.