As pidof is moving from sysvinit-utils to procps-base in the next release, I want to check I've got the way dpkg handles flags correctly.
procps-base will contain the new pidof and will be Essential: yes Breaks: sysvinit-utils << 2.88dsf-43 Now, if there is a new Essential package, is that automatically installed? What happens with the Essential and Breaks, one says "install this now" the other says "dont install this if a verison of sysvinit-utils is there". That's a bit of a conflict. Is Replaces a better way of doing this as procps-base is replacing one file from sysvinit-utils? Other than removing pidof, is there anything the syscinit-utils people need to do? As its a bit tricky, I really don't want to mess up the inter-dependencies. A non-working file init uses is a bad thing. - Craig -- Craig Small (@smallsees) http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131209025656.gb29...@enc.com.au