Quoting Jonathan Nieder (jrnie...@gmail.com): > > I think this can be fixed with a "Breaks" statement, that will force > > sysv-rc to be updated prior to the update of manpages-fr-extra. > > I worry that that is not completely robust: a "Breaks" would would > force sysv-rc to be updated prior to configuring the updated > manpages-fr-extra, but it doesn’t enforce the appropriate unpacking > order when upgrading with dpkg.
Ah, right. > I think a "Replaces" should be good enough. After all, this doesn’t > actually break the old sysv-rc version. I was balanced about these choices and they show the limits of my knowledge, sometimes, when it comes at package dependencies. Does this guarantee that, after the update, sysv-rc will still be on the system? > Would something like this work? Using unversioned Replaces like > this is only appropriate if we know that sysv-rc should not overwrite > any files from manpages-fr-extra in squeeze or squeeze+1. I suspect > we do know that. Sure. The said manpage was the only one causing this problem.
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