Subject: Bug#3860: procps should have Replaces: watch

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 96 11:58 EDT

Package: procps
Version: 1.01a-1                            

The new procps effectively replaces the watch package [1], so it should also
have a "Replaces: watch:" [2].

[1] dpkg reports that the binary and the manpage get overwritten:
miles:/mirror/debian/private/project/Incoming [root] # dpkg -i procps_1.01a-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 18013 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace procps (using procps_1.01a-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement procps ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/watch', which is also in package watch
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man1/watch.1', which is also in package watch
Setting up procps (1.01a-1) ...       

[2] The watch package remains, alas with nothing but the copyright file:
miles:/mirror/debian/private/project/Incoming [root] # dpkg -L watch
/.
/usr
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/copyright
/usr/doc/copyright/watch
/usr/bin
/usr/man
/usr/man/man1              

-- 
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

---

From: Helmut Geyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:54:05 +0200 (MET DST)

> miles:/mirror/debian/private/project/Incoming [root] # dpkg -L watch

OOps, this shouldn't have happened. The watch program is different from that
in the watch package. I will rename it.

	Helmut

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Helmut Geyer                                [email-masked]