Le vendredi 23 avril 2010 à 10:47 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Now if you run “dpkg -i bar_2.0_all.deb foo_2.0_hurd-i386.deb”, the
> > packages will refuse to upgrade, just as if there were conflicts.
> 
> And with dpkg -B -i ?

I didn’t know about -B, thanks for the pointer. I haven’t tested yet,
but apparently that would do the trick.

> I have not tested but APT uses --auto-deconfigure (aka -B) by default IIRC
> and it might simply make sense to have this option activated by default
> in dpkg since it's required for many common operations anyway.

That would seem a logical thing to do, yes.

Cheers,
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