Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Jonathan Nieder (jrnie...@gmail.com):
>> I think a "Replaces" should be good enough. After all, this doesn’t >> actually break the old sysv-rc version. > > I was balanced about these choices and they show the limits of my > knowledge, sometimes, when it comes at package dependencies. > > Does this guarantee that, after the update, sysv-rc will still be on > the system? Yes, the only thing it does is to allow manpages-fr-extra to take over files from sysv-rc. There is a downside: if someone installs sysv-rc/lenny with manpages-fr-extra/squeeze and then uninstalls or downgrades manpages-fr-extra, then the update-rc.d manpage goes missing until manpages-fr-extra is reinstalled. Once can prevent this by forcing a sysv-rc upgrade (at least for apt users) using Breaks in addition to the Replaces. That might be a good idea, too. See http://bugs.debian.org/557929 for a more serious example of this consideration. À plus, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
