Author: Peter Salisbury Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] Apt Depends and Replaces
I can't upgrade sun-java6-jre (Debian sid) today because the new
version (6-05-1) depends on the matching version of sun-java6-bin
which is currently still at 6-04-02. So I wait. But while I wait I was
looking at the depends etc. and see that sun-java6-jre 'depends' on
sun-java6-bin and also 'replaces' sun-java6-bin.
That seems a bit odd to me - how can something depend on a package it
replaces? Can anyone explain why the package maintainer has done that?
