Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Buddha Buck 
 Michael Shields wrote:
  
   Suggestions:
   
   1) Remove popclient from netstd, or
   2) Update the popclient in netstd and eliminate the separate package.
  
  I had already packaged and uploaded popclient before noticing this.
  I'm not sure it needs to be in netstd; if we take it out, I can
  trivially upload another version that Replaces: netstd.
 
 I'll remove it from the netstd package. There is one open bug report
 against the popclient in netstd. I'll reassign it to the popclient
 package to make sure it won't get lost.
 
That sounds good...  However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces: 
netstd.  As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one package 
completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing popclient 
replaces all of netstd.

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Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Michael Shields 
 That sounds good...  However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces: 
 netstd.  As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one 
 package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing 
 popclient replaces all of netstd.

I thought it meant the package replaced files in netstd.  If not, what
*should* I be using?

The package maintainer's guide on www.debian.org doesn't seem to cover
Replaces: at all.
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Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Guy Maor 
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Buddha Buck wrote:

 That sounds good...  However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces: 
 netstd.  As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one 
 package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing 
 popclient replaces all of netstd.

That's not true.  Replaces should be used whenever one package
overwrites files from another.  See the dpkg programmer's manual for
details.

In this case, popclient should use 
Replaces: netstd (= 2.07-1)
assuming that future versions of netstd will not include popclient.


Guy