Subject: Re: old image-1.2.13 package

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 96 04:50 BST

Austin Donnelly writes ("old image-1.2.13 package"):
> Since image is marked as essential, people are going to have trouble
> getting rid of it to move over to the kernel-image pacakge, aren't
> they?
> 
> What are people's thoughts on the subject?

Well, you could supply a dummy non-Essential image package to allow
you to remove it, or have some new Essential package Conflict/Replace
it.

Editing dpkg's status database under its feet won't work very well.

Ian.