Version: 2.86.ds1-66 [Ian Jackson] > Package: initscripts > Version: 2.86.ds1-38 > > The control file here says: > Replaces: ... sysvinit (<< 2.85-12) ... > Conflicts: ... sysvinit (<< 2.86.ds1-12) ... > > The effect of this is that when you say > dpkg -i initscripts.deb > on a system with older sysvinit, dpkg will deinstall sysvinit in > favour of initscripts. This is the effect of the Conflicts/Replaces > combination (and is documented in the policy manual).
This was fixed in version 2.86.ds1-66, when I removed these replaces/conflicts with versions before oldstable. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
