-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-11-21 23:25, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> hmm, i only now realized that my package actually uses an epoch, so it >> should read "<< 1:0.93", but this doesn't seem to help either. > > It should help. Are you sure that you corrected versions in both Breaks > and Replaces?
i did. and indeed it does help! dpkg bails out, but this time it complains about the old version conflicting with the replacement package, which is obviously what i asked for (i only misread the error message, believing i still get the error about overwriting files) thanks. fmasdr IOhannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7OWSkACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvRIZACgpsWxsYAdJvNpah8IBh+jgDEt UYcAnRapvdsU7mCEwWUYvN0x4b+6saOH =1yTE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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