On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:28:34PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > so the question is: what am i forgetting to do? i'm guessing that the > > problem has something to do with the original package still being > > present (as a metapackage)? > No, it's a general problem: dpkg won't notice that a conffile has been > moved from one package to the other, no matter whether it declares > "Replaces" or whatever. There's simply no solution within dpkg at the > moment. Where do you get this? Conflicts:/Replaces: has been used quite successfully to transfer ownership of conffiles for, e.g., the Xorg packages, without spurious prompts. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
