Hi, I'm confused about dpkg's package conflict resolution. Right now I have perl-base installed in my machine running potato,
$ dpkg -l perl-base [some information cut for brevity] ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1 I then tried to (re)install perl-5.005-base, $ dpkg --no-act -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.1.deb (Reading database ... 53315 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace perl-5.005-base 5.005.03-7.1 (using perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.1.deb) ... which dpkg does without complaining. But this package should conflict with perl-base, as can be seen below, $ dpkg-deb -I perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-7.1.deb [some information cut for brevity] Package: perl-5.005-base Version: 5.005.03-7.1 Architecture: sparc Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libdb2 (>= 1:2.4.14-7), libgdbmg1 Suggests: perl-5.005 Conflicts: perl-base (<<5.004.05), perl Replaces: perl-base, perl-5.005 Provides: perl5-base Installed-Size: 1496 Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg version is $ dpkg --version Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.6.14 (sparc). Why doesn't dpkg complains, then? Am I missing something? I noticed this ``problem'' when I tried to install perl-5.005-base (it wasn't installed before, as was the case for the machine above) with perl-base already installed, and dselect complained (in the machine above dselect also doesn't give a hiccup if I uninstall and reinstall perl-5.005-base). Thanks in advance for any help, -- Hermano Cabral
