Hi,

Julien BLACHE wrote (Saturday 28 March 2009):
> Brendon Higgins <blhigg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's like rubbing salt in the wound. Could you *please* check that
> > another package, i.e. iscan, doesn't already claim epkowa.conf before
> > removing that file, or at least check that iscan isn't installed, first?
>
> What's the exact package name? Is it just "iscan"?

That's right.

> > (Yes, I had to modify the iscan package's control file, removing the
> > conflict, to get it to install. I'm sure I'm not the only one.)
>
> Ah. You should have added a Replaces: libsane-extras, that would have
> worked better (iscan effectively taking ownership of the epkowa.conf
> conffile in that case).

*reads the docs* Whaddaya know. I thought a Replaces was a whole-package 
thing, but I guess not.

> Hopefully we're at the end of the tunnel with this whole mess now, new
> packages are mostly ready at Avasys.

I haven't really followed the reasons, but it's a shame this mess had to 
happen.

Peace,
Brendon

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