Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ> Could someone who knows more about how Conflicts and > Russ> Replaces is supposed to work, particularly in combination > Russ> with conffiles, take a look at bugs #402804 and #402806? I > Russ> don't understand why this isn't working. It looks to me > Russ> like all the right Conflicts and Replaces are in place so > Russ> that the dummy package upgrade should work. > As far as I can tell from 402806, with a bit of guessing, what happens > is: > 1. unpack latest ssh-krb5 > (old conffiles not deleted) > 2. unpack openssh-server (conflicts is now satisfied) > - detect conflicting conffile > - replaces ineffective because ssh-krb5 has already been upgraded and no > longer satisfies > version criteria. > - display error. > Disclaimer: not an expert. Hm, so maybe the Replaces shouldn't be versioned. Would that make sense? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
