Hi, On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:23:32PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > But crippled A without B still fulfills the dependencies of the > rdepends. But they don't work. A is now RC because of B.
But either you have the real A or the (crippled) A with B where B the fullfills the dependency and contains the needed file (read: symlink). Either way it works - except if you remove B, then it breaks, yes - because Replaces: are one-way. And A is not RC anymore because A doesn't exist anymore as a real package in that distribution. > > And Downgrades (where this would matter that removing libgraphite3-2 leaves > > a non-functional libgraphite2-2.0.0) are not supprted. > > That is not a downgrade from dpkg's point of view. Add a Breaks and it > looks a bit more like a downgrade. Ok, yeah, *sigh*. That can be seen as a non-downgrade, "just" removing 1.2.0, but... Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
