Re: control file Replaces: question

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:44:20AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > If you really need to do this, you will need to divert the configuration > > files with dpkg-divert. However, you really don't want to do this. > > Rather than managing configuration files with a package, you really want >

Re: control file Replaces: question

2008-02-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I want to manage the config files for several other packages centrally >> in one package that I'm going to maintain. According to the package >> maintainers guide, section 7.5.1 [1] , this is entirely possi

Re: control file Replaces: question

2008-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
William Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to manage the config files for several other packages centrally > in one package that I'm going to maintain. According to the package > maintainers guide, section 7.5.1 [1] , this is entirely possible and > perfectly reasonable via the Replaces:

control file Replaces: question

2008-01-29 Thread William Francis
I want to manage the config files for several other packages centrally in one package that I'm going to maintain. According to the package maintainers guide, section 7.5.1 [1] , this is entirely possible and perfectly reasonable via the Replaces: option in the control file. My question is,