Re: Transitional packages with conffiles

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On a somewhat related note:

If a package is manually installed, then replaced with a transitional
package, then apt should mark the transitional package's dependencies
as manually installed and the transitional package as automatically
installed.  Otherwise, when one removes the transitional package
(which is supposedly 'safe' to do) the replacement package it depended
on becomes a candidate for autoremove.

Does apt do this?  Is it even possible for it to recognise
transitional packages, without some unreliable heuristics?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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