Ian Jackson wrote: > A. Open a new bug against policy, asking that 7.6.2 be replaced with > something like this (exercising our power to specify what should > be in policy): > > Secondly, Replaces allows the packaging system to resolve which > package should be removed when there is a conflict - see > Conflicting binary packages - Conflicts, Section 7.4. This > usage only takes effect when the two packages do conflict, so > that the two usages of this field do not interfere with each > other. > > Conflicts+Replaces should be used only to ensure that obsolete > packages are removed in favour of new packages. A package > should not declare Replaces against any non-obsolete package, > and it should not declare Replaces against any virtual package > it itself provides. > > (In previous versions of policy there was a recommendation to do > the opposite. That was incorrect and inconsistent with the > purpose of Replaces, and was not fully honoured by dpkg.
For what it’s worth, I like this proposal and think it’s the right thing to do. Thank you for making it. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
