19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
6:23 a.m.
From the man page : replaces (array) : An array of packages that this package should replace, and can be used to handle renamed/combined packages. For example, if the 'j2re' package is renamed to 'jre', this directive allows future upgrades to continue as expected even though the
Actually, I think conflicts and provides are pretty clear. Only replaces is more confusing. package has moved. Renaming package is exactly the case of FS #7415 But should replaces be used together with provides and conflicts ? Aren't provides and conflicts implicit when a package is renamed ? Maybe the problem here is that this renaming happens in another repo (gnome-devel), and so the old package remains in extra.