Bug#1050322: Partial versus complete replacement of a package by another

Hi, Le mercredi 23 août 2023 à 08:45 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit : > No, the central misunderstanding here is that you think Replaces will > have the effect of instructing dpkg to remove the replaced package > completely, which is not the case. Oh. I think I had two problems: (1) thinking "Rep

Bug#1050322: Partial versus complete replacement of a package by another

On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 09:22:41 +0200, julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote: > In src:mathcomp-analysis 0.6.4-2, I declared that libcoq-mathcomp- > classical Breaks libcoq-mathcomp-analysis (<< 0.6.4) and closed the > bug. It was swiftly re-opened because I hadn't used Breaks+Replaces > according to Policy

Bug#1050322: Partial versus complete replacement of a package by another

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.2.0 Severity: normal Hi, over at bug #1050027 there is a discussion of applicable policy when splitting a package. I'll first explain what the bug is about and then why that's a problem with the Policy. The src:mathcomp-analysis package provided a single binar