I don't think so. That commit handles a very specific case. The new package has to set all three of Provides, Conflicts, and Replaces. Breaks isn't recognized, and I imagine that there are common churn situations in a development release where Provides is not specified.
cjwatson, as the author of that patch, can you comment on the above? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430197 Title: Disable partial upgrades during a development release To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/430197/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
