Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> writes: > It seems to imply that if all files in a package are replaced by a > new package, the old package will 'disappear' and that is the > behavior I was hoping for That seems to be the case, only that (AFAIK) "disappearing" packages end up being in the "removed" state, not the "purged" state[1]. This should be better documented. Footnotes: [1] Exceptions are packages with no postrm and no conffiles. -- Robbe
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