[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#564254: Bug#564254: Bug#564254: conflicting /etc/bash_completion

[David Paleino]

On Friday 08 January 2010 20:47:45, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Jan  8, 2010 at 20:23:59 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> > reassign 564254 bash-completion
> > retitle 564254 add proper Conflicts: with older bash versions
> > thanks
> >
> > On Friday 08 January 2010 19:46:44, David Paleino wrote:
> > > reassign 564254 bash
> > > retitle 564254 shouldn't ship bash_completion
> > > thanks
> >
> > bash-completion has proper Replaces/Depends, but it's missing also a
> > Conflicts on older bash versions, which I believe is needed. Going to fix
> > it, and sorry for the mess!
> 
> Why do you think Conflicts are needed?  I'm pretty sure Conflicts would
> be wrong.

What could have gone wrong in the installation Kurt reported then? The only 
thing I saw missing is Conflicts. According to policy though, Replaces alone 
would have done the trick.

If that's not fault of the missing Conflicts, I really have no idea of what it 
could be, unless it's a bug in handling these fields by dpkg.

Kindly,
David

(dropping bash at packages.d.o)

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