On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:17:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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?
This is correct; I worked it out independently with dpkg -D7777 (coming to exactly the same conclusions as Brian regarding the sequence of events) and have committed a fix to my CVS repository. I think we crossed in the post on the bug ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
