Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> writes: > On 6/28/23 02:31, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Normally Conflicts is always added with Replaces because otherwise you can >> have the following situation: >> * Package A version 1.0-1 is installed providing file F. >> * File F is moved to package B as of package A 1.0-3. >> * User installs package B, which replaces the file in package A. >> * User upgrades package A to version 1.0-2 (*not* 1.0-3). Or, rather, >> tries, because this will fail with an error due to the file conflict. > No, that is fine. "Replaces: A (<< 1.0-3)" is sufficient here that the > file is not unpacked from A 1.0-2. Oh! Of course. Okay. In that case, I don't actually know why we usually use Conflicts with Replaces. Maybe we don't really need to? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
