Michael Biebl schrieb: > Dylan Thurston schrieb: >> Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30/08/2007): >>> According to the changelog, not accurate: >>> | + Add Conflicts/Replaces: network-manager-gnome (<< 0.6.5-1) as [...] >>> >>> Not doing so would be a grave bug (file conflict between packages). >> Do you have a reference for why "Replaces" is necessary? According to >> my reading of policy, only "Conflicts" is necessary, but I might well > > As the Changelog says: network-manager >= 0.6.5-1 now ships > nm-vpn-properties which was previously part of network-manager-gnome << > 0.6.5-1. > > Replaces tells dpkg, to overwrite files in certain other packages. Or > put in other words, it tells dpkg, that ownership of nm-vpn-properties > is transferred from network-manager-gnome to network-manager (I admit > that is primarily useful for conffiles)
To emphasize that: Without the Replaces a smooth upgrade from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5 is not possible ! Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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