On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 04:27:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > (resending, so this actually shows up in the web log) > > <sigh> > While 0.79 may address the new issue raised by ma...@debian.org in > message #39, it does _not_ address the original issue, which relates to > u-a refusing to upgrade a package if doing so would cause another > package to be deleted, even when conflicts/provides/replaces are in > play. > > Like the original requestor, I'd very much like to see a knob that > changes this behavior, at least in cases where the deleted package is > being replaced.
Thanks for your mail! Attached is a bzr patch bundle that contains a first iteration of this feature. The bulk is the test data, the actual patch is relatively small. I only created a artifical testcase for it, it would be great if you could test it with unattended-upgrade --debug --dry-run for the real world case where it refuses to upgrade the package. Thanks, Michael
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