Hello, I have an issue with the renaming of a binary package A -> B that we use internally (actually, it's another flavour of the same software). In B, I added the following deps: Provides: A Conflicts: A Replaces: A 'apt-get install B' removes A, but the issue is that A's postrm is still there and 'dpkg -P postrm' calls 'A.postrm purge': in my case, it deletes parts used by B. With the above fields, I expected that B would take over A completely, and 'apt-get install B' would "purge" A without actually calling 'A.postrm purge' Shipping a dummy A package is too much work and not user-friendly. As a workaround, B scripts could remove/alter A.postrm but it looks so ugly that I doubt such practice would be accepted in official Debian repositories. Julien
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