On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 21:57 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Furthermore, this is a downgrade from a replacing package to a > replaced > package. Unless you also --reinstall the package at the end, missing > files > are quite to be expected.
Shouldn't that case be something that DPKG could detect and either warn or automatically re-install... or do it in the right order (first purge, that installed) and thus prevent the replaced files from being deleted? Thanks, Chris.
