Re: Re: RFC: Proposal to combine diversions and Replaces into DEBIAN/replaces

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Sato Mayamoto wrote:

> I host several private repositories that offer packages that contain
> files and configurations for ubuntu clients. these files often
> replace files of different packages, without breaking the package.
>
> My problem is indeed that, once I am forced to remove the packages
> that I installed previously from our private repositories, the
> original packages are left broken.

Perhaps diversions would work. :)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan