Re: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>]

On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 21:57 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Furthermore, this is a downgrade from a replacing package to a
> replaced
> package. Unless you also --reinstall the package at the end, missing
> files
> are quite to be expected.

Shouldn't that case be something that DPKG could detect and either warn
or automatically re-install... or do it in the right order (first
purge, that installed) and thus prevent the replaced files from being
deleted?

Thanks,
Chris.