Re: meaning & behaviour of "Replaces" in debs

2008-07-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sven Many thanks -- the link fully answers my question Cheers Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: meaning & behaviour of "Replaces" in debs

2008-07-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-29 11:57 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my debian/testing machine I have a 3rd party package > gerris-snapshot (the debian gerris package is very old). > And ... > > > apt-cache show libgsl0-dev > > Package: libgsl0-dev > : > Version: 1.11-2 > : > Depends: libgsl0ldbl

meaning & behaviour of "Replaces" in debs

2008-07-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all On my debian/testing machine I have a 3rd party package gerris-snapshot (the debian gerris package is very old). And ... > apt-cache show libgsl0-dev Package: libgsl0-dev : Version: 1.11-2 : Depends: libgsl0ldbl (= 1.11-2) > apt-cache show libgsl0ldbl Version: 1.11-2 R