On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:01:38PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:41:44PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> > Just as a comment, waiting for modutils to remove the create_module
> > manpage isn't enough; manpages-dev still need to have

> > Replaces: modutils

> > in its control-file, to allow for upgrades to work properly.
> Why?  Upgrades from sarge to etch will be fine as long as one of
> modutils and manpages drops the file before the release.

False.  Without the constraint of a package relationship, unpack order of
the two packages is undefined on upgrade.  If the file is moving packages, a
Replaces: is needed.

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