On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 02:20:42PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Followup-For: Bug #699759 > Control: tag -1 patch > > Hi, > > I'm attaching a patch that just skips regative scores from rdeps. I > thought I sent this long ago ... > It has gotten a lot of testing for doing piuparts squeeze->wheezy > upgrades with apt/wheezy+patch (backported to squeeze). Compared to > apt/wheezy (backported to squeeze, too) this solves the score issue > for a few upgrade paths and does not introduce new problems. > > This has mainly an effect on "leaf" packages with scores <= 2. > "Skewing" the score by +/- 1 makes a big difference here. > > I'd like to see if this issue could be solved in an early point release > for wheezy, too, to have a more sane scoring at work for wheezy->jessie > upgrades.
This would obviously only work for people having the point release installed. As far as I am aware, updates from one release to the next are supported, without any installed updates. So, people with the update might have a different result than those without the update. I don't know whether this is a problem for anyone, but I wanted to let you know. Side note: For Wheezy -> Jessie upgrades we should be in the position to upgrade APT first, and then use jessie's APT to upgrade the remaining system to jessie. This might involve upgrading libc6, libgcc1, and libstdc++6. This should be possible now because libapt-pkg and libapt-inst are split out from the apt/apt-utils binaries. If that works, we might want to consider this way as the official upgrade strategy (because we can then fix other stuff more easily for those upgrades) -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
