On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 11:42:13AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > You must use versioned Replaces, and *not* versioned Breaks, for the case of > moving files between Essential packages. Since (as others have mentioned) > the version of sysvinit-utils that drops pidof needs to add a Pre-Dep ond > procps-base, the Pre-Depends<->Breaks relationship makes it impossible for That makes sense actually. Install procps-base first, the Replaces lets it replace pidof Install new sysvinit-utils, it pre-depends on procps-base so pidof is there.
It's not critical that the new procps-base gets installed, just that either the old sysvinit-utils OR the new procps-base is there so we have a pidof somewhere. Thanks everyone for your comments. - 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/20131209220327.gd23...@enc.com.au