Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:05:02PM +0100, Christian Marillat scribbled:
[...] > The new packages don't need to replaces to old one. API for these news > packages is completely different and and GNOME 1.4 package will never > compile with the GNOME 2 libapplet. > Christian, I know that. Let me rephrase my question, I was probably not > clear enough. Is there a viable reason for libpanel-applet0 to replace > libpanel-applet-dev? The former does not provide the functionality of the libpanel-applet0 contains only a "Replaces: libpanel-applet-dev (<= 1.3.1-1)" because some files have been move from libpanel-applet0 to libpanel-applet-dev. > latter and it doesn't seem to be necessary to add the Replace: > libpanel-applet-dev to its control file, since that creates a confusion as > to the functionality provided by libpanel-applet0 and doesn't seem to be > necessary to remove (as per policy quoted in the other mail) the > libpanel-applet-dev package. In other words - wouldn't it be better if you > dropped the Replace: line from the libpanel-applet0 control file? A Replaces field doesn't remove a package at all. A Replaces is only here to avoid dpkg error, when dpkg try to overwrite a file who exist in a previous packages. may be I still don't understand what do you mean ? Christian
