Hello, apt & aptitude people, could you perhaps take a quick look at
#498700 and comment? Thanks in advance.
* Frans Pop [Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:06:58 +0200]:
> On Sunday 28 September 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > Isn't this a bug of our upgrading tools, that should prefer to install
> > a new, non-obsolete package A that Provides: B, rather than keeping a
> > no-longer-present-in-the-lists B installed?
> Possibly. But as long as those tools don't support that it will have to be
> solved in the packages themselves.
> Feel free to clone the bug to apt/aptitude/whatever if you feel that
> should be implemented, but I'd think that would be squeeze material, not
> lenny.
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