Guy Maor wrote: > Get Ian to implement the dpkg Breaks field. I'm afraid that won't help us now, since people will be upgrading with a dpkg that is unaware of this field. However, I see no semantic difference between Breaks: and a versioned Conflicts:. Can we not use conflicts? We did the libc6 upgrade this way, and this case is much simpler than that. (There's no package shuffling, just forced upgrades.) Richard Braakman