Hell! On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 4:54 AM Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> wrote: > > On 2021-04-03 Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello! > > > In MariaDB we have over the years moved files around. A file that was first > > in e.g. mariadb-server-10.3 might have been moved to > > mariadb-server-core-10.3 and some years later to mariadb-client-core-10.5. > > The result is a massive debian/control file with a lot of > > Conflicts/Breaks/Replaces [1] > > > While trying to clean up and simplify I started wondering, when should one > > use Conflicts/Replaces and when Breaks/Replaces? > [...] > > The rough guideline is to use Breaks together with an earlier than (<<, > <=) condition. Which seems to be what mariadb does.
OK > I do not think there is a lot to improve here. Did you you see David's > recent message, <20210331164012.gevwmagm63q2yc54@crossbow>? Yes, and I solved the original issue already using the 'apt install --with-source ./Packages -s' technique.