James Vega wrote: >> Maybe, I'm wrong and there is the action chain that allows policy-compliant >> upgrade in this case? Please describe it then to me. > > apt-get handles this fine, so it is possible. I'm assuming it's something > along the lines of the following. > > deconfigure e2fsprogs > deconfigure e2fslibs Dpkg has not '--deconfigure' command. It's the main stopper.
> unpack e2fslibs > configure e2fslibs > unpack e2fsprogs > configure e2fsprogs > If you don't need my system to stay in its current state for further > debugging, I can upgrade with apt-get and see what it does to verify. > Apt-get (as well as all libapt -based programs) just pass '--force-depends' to dpkg, so they can't be a proof even in case I'm still wrong. And, I have already reproduced the issue on my system, so I don't need your machine anymore. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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