[please followup on #645713] On Friday, 3. May 2013 13:56:07 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 13:21:44 +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > This is to help around bug #645713. > > I'm not sure... We don't even understand *why* that would help. And
Having the old packages still "available" will change the scores assigned by apt: the previously "obsolete" packages will now get the PrioInstalledAndNotObsolete bonus (which defaults to 1), so this may change some ranking and ties might be resolved differently. Due to apt bug #699759 scoring for leaf packages is very fragile ... Since adding back openoffice.org-core as a transitional did not help here, it is probably the combination of several transitionals needed to "fix" this issue. Let me see if I can dig into this some further ... Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
