Hello, some library packages like "libtirpc1" (just my example here) contain a conffile like "/etc/netconfig". Naturally they must conflict with their successor "libtirpc3" as they contain the same file name. Currently it does not: <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884029>
1. Either I could add the "Conflicts: libtirpc1" but that would render the rename of the package following the SONAME change useless as they will never be co-installed anyway then. 2. Or I could add a "Replaces: libtirpc1 (<< 0.2.5-1.2)" to silence dpkg and allow libtirpc3 to overwrite that with which still has the same format and content. This has the drawback that anyone later on installing 1 after 3 will get the error from dpkg as 1 is not allowed to replace the file from 3. 3. And/or I can create an additional package "libtirpc-common" to just contain that single conffile and make "libtirpc[13]" both depend on it. This last option is AFAIK frowned upon as it creates yet another package for a single file. So whats the current best practice? Philipp
