Comment 4 for bug 54234

Michael Vogt writes ("[Bug 54234] Re: update-manager for edgy needs to upgrade dpkg/apt before calculating the upgrade to support the new "breaks""):
> The alternative is of course to not use breaks until edgy+1 (which would
> be unfortunate, but given the current situation with the lack of a
> backported apt and the lack of time until release it may well be the
> only feasible way).

There have been at least two cases of Breaks being used in the archive
that I know of, one of which would be tedious to back out.

I think the real alternative is a special non-auto-built version of
the libapt and python-apt packages.

Ian.