control file Replaces: question

[William Francis]

I want to manage the config files for several other packages centrally 
in one package that I'm going to maintain. According to the package 
maintainers guide, section 7.5.1 [1] , this is entirely possible and 
perfectly reasonable via the Replaces: option in the control file.  My 
question is, how do I use the Replaces: option to take ownership of just 
one file and not have it delete the entire package? Also, can I make my 
config package Depend: on the package that I'm going to replace the 
config file of, or does it need to be installed first for this to work?

thanks,

Will


[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.5.1


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