David Kalnischkies <kalnischk...@gmail.com> writes:
> Sidenote: I am not sure why the usage of 'disappearing packages' was
> removed from the wiki as dpkg and APT support them in squeeze - at least
> in my eyes it looked like the holy grail to prevent maintainers from
> using all these half-working tricks in battle against APT, but i will
> leave that up to decide for others as IANAD{D,M}.
You can't use disappearing packages with Policy-compliant packages so far
as I can tell, since it would require both packages provide the same
/usr/share/doc directory and changelog file, which is a Policy violation.
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