smart wants to upgrade non-installed packages

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> D'oh... ever since I package gbdfed (Sep 10), I never removed xmbdfed. 
> Looks like apt does not get the Obsoletes: line otherwise xmbdfed would 
> have been upgraded by now.

I implemented support for this in APT-RPM as well when I was
the maintainer.  If you do dist-upgrade it should also consider
obsoletes.  Something may have changed after that, of course.

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