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They will eventually fix it up as opposed to...

The team released a new package a few hours ago after talking to not only others at MSFT working with Debian and Linux but especially norbusan (OP): https://aka.ms/Oxbegy

I personally spent just a few hours of the last day with the team but I think our packaging practices are coming out stronger from this. At the very least I think this team is approaching debconf and dpkg-divert and update-alternatives (and the portions of those concepts that can translate to RPM) in a much more thoughtful way. I'm sure that was also what OP intended.

(Disclaimer: MSFT employee, just in case.)