Control: tag -1 + pending Hi Gianfranco,
Gianfranco Costamagna: > Hi, as explained here [1], Ubuntu needs the breaks+replaces from an LTS to > another, and > they can be safely dropped after the new one is out. > Now, xenial is released, and upgrades from trusty will be done with the > trusty and xenial > version. > Dropping it now, will make it go into yakkety, and then avoid upgrade > failures. Yeah, let's clean this up eventually! Done in our Vcs-Bzr. I've tried to document every change in atomic commits, see bzr log. I'd be very happy if you could review it :) Note that I've also checked the Debian upgrade paths, since you provided a (very good, thanks!) reasoning only for the Ubuntu side of the story. In a couple cases, one had to look a bit closer since the version of packages in Jessie did not satisfy the Breaks+Replaces relationships… but they could be removed in the end anyway. Cheers, -- intrigeri
