Bug#385722: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#385722: please consider splitting off sysvutils

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I did some more testing, trying to upgrade the package using 'dpkg
> -i', and ran into serious problems.  It refuses to upgrade because
> sysvinit pre-depend on sysvutils, which include a file already in the
> old/existing sysvinit.  I suspect the pre-depend is the problem.  I am

A Replaces: sysvinit (<= [whatever]) header in the sysvutils package should
fix this.

Also, may I humbly suggest naming the new package sysvinit-utils instead of
sysvutils?

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