On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:16:38PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:28, Sven Luther wrote: > > The problem is when you move some files from one package to another. > > both can even be part of the same source packages, and this breaks > > everything. It _is_ a bug in dpkg/apt, and should be fixed, if possible. > > You are completely wrong, and clueless to boot. > > If one package intentionally contains files in another package, you must > declare a Replaces: foo (<< 1.2.3-4). Even if it's one file. Even if > both packages are from the same source package. > > If you do anything else, you have created a bug in your package. It's > that simple.
I don't do such things, but judging from the huge number of such problems i have had these past month, there are many buggy packages then, and the people who know this is wrong don't even cared to fill bug reports. Friendly, Sven Luther
