On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:23:14PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
> I maintain a package that provides a shared library, libosp3c102. The files
> /usr/share/locale/{ja,fr,de,sv}/LC_MESSAGES/sp.mo are part of the package.
> However, they are also part of the package that provided the older version of
> the same shared library, libosp2. When I try to install libosp3c102 on a
> system that has libosp2 installed, I get an error: "trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sp.mo', which is also in package libosp2".
> I found that libgtk2.0-common and libgtk1.2-common versionize the locale
> files, e.g., gtk20.mo and gtk+.mo, respectively. I'm not certain that it was
> done to solve the same problem, but it looks like that would work in my case.
> Is there any reason not to do that?
Look up 'Replaces' in the policy or developer's guide or whatnot.
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Paul "TBBle" Hampson
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