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

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl schrieb:
> Dylan Thurston schrieb:
>> 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
> 
> As the Changelog says: network-manager >= 0.6.5-1 now ships
> nm-vpn-properties which was previously part of network-manager-gnome <<
> 0.6.5-1.
> 
> Replaces tells dpkg, to overwrite files in certain other packages. Or
> put in other words, it tells dpkg, that ownership of nm-vpn-properties
> is transferred from network-manager-gnome to network-manager (I admit
> that is primarily useful for conffiles)

To emphasize that: Without the Replaces a smooth upgrade from 0.6.4 to
0.6.5 is not possible !

Michael


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