[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#440143: Why replaces?

[Dylan Thurston]

Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr> (30/08/2007):
> According to the changelog, not accurate:
> | + Add Conflicts/Replaces: network-manager-gnome (<< 0.6.5-1) as [...]
> 
> Not doing so would be a grave bug (file conflict between packages).

Do you have a reference for why "Replaces" is necessary?  According to
my reading of policy, only "Conflicts" is necessary, but I might well
have missed something.  With the "Replaces", aptitude (eg) will
silently remove the old network-manager-gnome.

Also, why the name change from network-manager-gnome to
network-manager-applet?  Was this caused by the "Replaces" above?

Peace,
	Dylan