Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@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). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbjl7qy9....@windlord.stanford.edu
