Hi,

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2007 12:17 schrieb Raphael Hertzog:
> > Unpacking liblzo-dev (from .../liblzo-dev_1.08-3_ia64.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /x/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/var/cache/apt/archives/liblzo-dev_1.08
> >-3_ia64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite
> > `/usr/share/lzo/minilzo/README.LZO', which is also in package liblzo2-dev
> 
> I can't reproduce this.  liblzo2-dev has a Replaces: liblzo-dev, and I can 
> install both packages just fine.

Install liblzo2-dev first and then install liblzo-dev.

liblzo2-dev can overwrite liblzo-dev but liblzo-dev can't overwrite
liblzo2-dev.

But Replaces shouldn't be used at all if both packages are meant to
coexist... and if they don't, they you need to indicate that with a proper
Conflict.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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