Steve Langasek wrote: >> By logic. I didn't see anything to prevent them. However, as dpkg disagree >> with me too, I started to wonder if policy in 'Packages can declare in their >> control file that they should overwrite files in certain other packages, or >> completely replace other packages' actually means two-way dependency? And is >> it obvious to anyone but me? > > It's not a "two-way dependency"; the relationship is still asymmetric, the > files from the package /declaring/ Replaces always takes precedence. But > the Replaces operation is invariant with respect to package unpack order - > perhaps that's what you mean? Yes, that's what I mean.
-- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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