On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:50:16PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > How do we continue, Frank? I guess best is to do nothing and wait until
> > tetex3 hits testing, and everything is fixed. Or?

> Yes, I think so.  I fear the bug behind this is that one should not
> declare "Replaces" on a packages that may not be installed by the time
> of the installation or upgrade, in other words, it is only possible if
> the replacing package depends on the replaced package.

That's not true.  It's a dpkg bug if installing the replaced package after
the replacing package prevents the Replaces: from taking effect.  Actually,
I was pretty sure this was a dpkg bug that's been *fixed* recently.

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