On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:35:48PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:50:00PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > +Package: libfl-dev
> > +Section: libdevel
> > +Priority: optional
> > +Architecture: any
> > +Multi-Arch: same
> > +Replaces: flex (<< 2.5.35-10ubuntu2)

> Shouldn't you also have a matching Breaks field, to avoid the situation
> called out in the footnote to policy 7.6.1 where somebody installs and
> then removes the new libfl-dev package without upgrading flex and as a
> result is left with some missing files?

Yep.  Fixing in Ubuntu.

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