Bug#504880: mail-transport-agent (Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages)
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> If we instead take the Conflicts seriously, then switching between MTAs
> requires the following sequences of events:
> deconfigure packages that pre-depend or depend on mail-transport-agent
> remove the old mail-transport-agent
> unpack the new mail-transport-agent
> configure in the appropriate order
> This looks like an awfully slow way to accomplish a task that would
> probably be dealt with better by triggering on /etc/aliases. But that
> is probably something to propose for squeeze+2 or so.
I think what happens in practice in this case is that apt calls dpkg with
some --force-* flag, or at least that's what the messages that I've seen
scroll by in this sort of situation seem to imply. I agree that it would
be good to have a better way of handling it (although also agree that's a
different bug than this one).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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