On 5/10/06, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
On your new A, add an "Obsoletes" tag:
Obsoletes: B
This will burn you later. Say you decide you do want B at a later
date. If you don't remember to use A you can't install B.
Also if you try and install something that requires B package
management platforms will pull in A instead. Which won't have the
libraries the new package needs.
Obsoletes should only be used when package A replaces the functionality
of B and is intended to be a complete replacement for it.
Russell