Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: >> > We really need to get dpkg/apt and dselect/aptitude working as designed. >> > Not supporting auto-selecting packages like this, in spite of it >> > having been documented for years, is just embarassing. >> >> I agree, but I'm not sure that conflicts/replaces/provides is an >> elegant way of telling the package manager "this package is what >> this other package used to be". > > According to Ian, a simple Replaces was originally intended to have > those semantics (in addition to suppressing warnings about overwritten > files). Conflicts/Replaces/Provides would indeed be overkill. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seems like you'd need something like "Replaced-By:" so that an upgrade process would know which new package to choose. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]