On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:48:49PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> libtextwrap (0.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Fixed "libtextwrap-dev: Fail to upgrade when libtextwrap1 0.1-1 is
>     installed", libtextwrap-dev conflicts with libtextwrap1 (<= 0.1-1),
>     closes: #323896.
> 
>  -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:37:00 
> +1000
> 
> Conflicts is not meant to be used to deal with file overwrites like
> this; using it that way is likely to cause significant upgrade
> complexity, by forcing libtextwrap1 to be removed in order to unpack the
> new libtextwrap-dev. Please change this Conflicts to a Replaces, which
> is the field you're meant to use to indicate that files have moved from
> one package to another.

Oh, while you're at it, any chance that the Replaces could be (<< 0.1-2)
rather than (<= 0.1-1)? That would be slightly nicer to derivatives like
Ubuntu that previously had libtextwrap1 0.1-1ubuntu1 containing
dotextwrap ...

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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