Hello, I'm writing a script [1] to update package links on ArchWiki. The script also gives hints on broken/outdated package, e.g. for 'mesa-dri` the hint is "replaced by 'mesa'" (with an appropriate link to the 'mesa' package). I've chosen to only look into the 'replaces' array of the packages, because unlike 'provides', a package can be replaced only by one other package, whereas multiple packages can "provide" the same package.
Or at least I thought so - it appears that both qemu and libcacard have qemu-kvm in their 'replaces' array. In this case, it's because qemu is a split package (qemu + libcacard) and the replaces array is defined globally in the PKGBUILD, not per-package. Is this a bug or was my assumption about the 'replaces' array wrong? How would pacman handle the situation where qemu-kvm is supposed to be replaced by libcacard and/or qemu? Thanks for answers, Jakub Klinkovský (Lahwaacz) [1]: https://github.com/lahwaacz/wiki-scripts/blob/master/update-package-templates.py
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