After a number of attempts, I found that it pragmatically works if the components get a version assigned, i.e. pkgbuild --version 1.2.3 … or in the distribution.plist. This is somehow surprising, as the documentation doesn't state that a version is required (it says that the version is then set to 0 and it cannot decide whether it is an upgrade or a downgrade).
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