On 17/01/2024 14:07, Helmut Grohne wrote:
I somehow missed how Ben's libnfsidmap bug #1058937 works slightly simpler. Given that $second has a conflict with the installed version of $first, one can skip that second step and instead install $second directly with dpkg -i. So no, this weird selections stuff is not technically necessary.
To check I have understood correctly: one may see loss of files when doing dpkg -i of a package where it Conflicts: with an installed package?
If that's so, then I think it increases my unhappyness about this situation. I can understand "do upgrades with apt, that's the tooling for the job", and we had already talked about adding something to release notes to describe what manual actions that one might take during an upgrade were dangerous, but "dpkg -i foo.deb where foo.deb Conflicts with something you have installed" seems like the sort of thing one really might reasonably do during an upgrade that has got stuck for some reason or other.
Regards, Matthew