Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> writes: > # dpkg --install *-tls*.deb > Selecting previously deselected package sendmail-tls. > dpkg: considering removing sendmail in favour of sendmail-tls ... > dpkg: yes, will remove sendmail in favour of sendmail-tls. > Removing sendmail in-favour sendmail-tls(8.11.5+8.12.0.Beta17-0) <= debugging > ... > > # ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 2 14:35 /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.list > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3537 Aug 2 13:53 /var/lib/dpkg/info/sendmail.postrm* > > Things look good, except that I expected sendmail to disappear !!! It's removed here, not purged. I consider this perfectly fine for "Conflicts" resolution -- wouldn't want the config files to disappear due to some automatic action. You can always purge it manually later, just as you did. -- Robbe
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