On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 04:56:08PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 02:39:57PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > To clarify: You want us to support having imagemagick from sarge > > installed + pulling in graphicsmagick from etch, but pulling > > graphicsmagick from etch + later installing imagemagick from sarge is > > intentionally left broken? For now I've added the Replaces, but I think > > that's a half-baked solution. > > It's not broken; current dpkg understands that Replaces: should take effect > even if the replaced package is installed after the package that replaces > it.
Current dpkg does, but the feature was added post-sarge in 1.13.2. As far as I understand, it should only be relied upon post-etch? Regards, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
