Hi! On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 09:53:17 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > A repository with a whitelist cannot install packages with names outside > that whitelist. It should also not be able to have packages with > Provides: or Replaces: headers outside that whitelist (so you can't ship > a package that claims to provide libc6). Since you cannot overwrite > other packages' files without Replaces:, you can't have a Package: > libbeidlibc6 which contains a file shipped by libc6.
You can use dpkg-divert, or triggers + moving files around from maintscripts, but the latter would probably be really dodgy. :) Regards, Guillem