Bug#940034: libelogind0: replacing a core system library and conflicting against the default init considered harmful

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Adam Borowski wrote:

> > The "init" package has the "Important: yes" control field which as I

> That flag is not for "without an explicit user choice".  It's for "you're
> breaking the packaging system, far more than ignoring dependencies".

This is wrong.

> It's the biggest hammer dpkg has.

This is wrong; the biggest hammer is Conflicts without Replaces,
or Pre-Depends.

bye,
//mirabilos
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