Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system)

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

> dpkg-divert --package base-files --divert-to /dev.base/hda /dev/hda

 Ugh.. ugly... 

 The clean solution is to truncate the file list of base, as proposed. This
will "release" all the files owned by that package safely, with no danger at
all.