For one of our clients, we use Ubuntu for most of the infrastructure and customer application environments. While the quality of most packages in Debian and Ubuntu is very, very high, we do occasionally come across a package that has minor issues. In this post, I’m going to try to document some of the more common workarounds – these are fixes for corner-cases where the packaging system is doing “almost the right thing”, but where we need to coerce it into doing something a little bit different.