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Rpm >= 4.11 detects unsupported replace-attempts and reports them as file conflicts, instead of barfing up in middle of transaction. %pretrans hacks can still be used to work around it though.
That's the extent to which this is going to be "fixed" for the foreseeable future. Of course if rpm some day learns to truly deal with some of these situations, conflicts can be lifted accordingly.