Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:28:34PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > so the question is: what am i forgetting to do? i'm guessing that the >> > problem has something to do with the original package still being >> > present (as a metapackage)? > >> No, it's a general problem: dpkg won't notice that a conffile has been >> moved from one package to the other, no matter whether it declares >> "Replaces" or whatever. There's simply no solution within dpkg at the >> moment. > > Where do you get this? Conflicts:/Replaces: has been used quite > successfully to transfer ownership of conffiles for, e.g., the Xorg > packages, without spurious prompts.
Hm, I did get this from the fact that I got lots of spurious prompts, both with my own and with others' packages. However, in all cases I remember there was either only a versioned Conflicts, or no Conflicts at all. I also don't see anything in the policy that indicates that Conflicts has an effect on things that should be covered by Replaces; and I think that it shouldn't. If dpkg already has the means to cleanly take over conffiles from an other package, why not just do this when the taking-over package declares Replaces? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
