Re: dpkg Replaces: field (was Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories)

1996-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Fearnley writes: > '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > >I had moaned about this weeks ago. You have to manually delete dvips after > >installing dvipsk, xdvi after xdvik etc. A "Conflicts:" in debian.control > >might have helped here. Or a new "Replaces:" field. > > Yes, this seems to me a good ide

dpkg Replaces: field (was Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories)

1996-01-03 Thread Chris Fearnley
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > > Raul Miller writes: > Raul> It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and > Raul> that it did originally have some executables in it. > >Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl >Berry's kpathsea in the package n