diff --git a/templates/xz/devel.template b/templates/xz/devel.template
index 75f34dc02e8..303d5c7e8a9 100644
--- a/templates/xz/devel.template
+++ b/templates/xz/devel.template
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-supersedes="lzma-utils-devel"
+replaces="lzma-utils-devel"
 Add_dependency run xz
 
 do_install()
diff --git a/templates/xz/template b/templates/xz/template
index 7eb3a509265..5a03741e4b4 100644
--- a/templates/xz/template
+++ b/templates/xz/template
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ long_desc="
   * A few shell scripts make diffing and grepping LZMA compressed
     files easy. The scripts were adapted from gzip and bzip2."
 
-supersedes="lzma-utils lzma-utils-libs"
+replaces="lzma-utils lzma-utils-libs"
 subpackages="devel"
 Add_dependency run glibc
 Add_dependency run gcc-libstdc++