Robert Collins wrote:
Well, the reason I would use --force in such situations is that reverse depends often are not equal to the forward depends. So what gets removed and what gets reinstalled will often not match.
Yeah, in the fair amount of times I have had to do this (upgrading old systems to non-standard releases -wwody+backports etc), I have just tried to keep a list of removed packages and simply reinstalled them after everything is back in the right place. Removing and reinstalling is generally fairly painless.
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