Package: apt Version: 1.6~alpha7 Severity: wishlist Recently, package splitting has become a lot more common, tons of packages have FOO and FOO-common now, the latter being arch:all.
Now, in between the time FOO-common is ACCEPTed and FOO has been rebuilt for that architecture, landed on the mirrors, etc., APT wants to upgrade FOO-common and remove the old version of FOO. I was thinking of adding a new header field to one of the two packages that declares “FOO-common is only here for the benefit of FOO” so the dependency resolver can DTRT (its default mecha‐ nism of upgrading everything it can is not incorrect in the ge‐ neral case, just here). Perhaps you have a better idea. I’ll leave the details to you and perhaps the dpkg maintainer. This would help users of unstable, especially on debian-ports architectures, massively. -- Package-specific info: -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/dash-mksh.pref present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unreleased APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: x32 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.117 ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.7 ii gpgv 2.2.4-3 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.6~alpha7 ii libc6 2.26-6 ii libgcc1 1:8-20180207-2 ii libgnutls30 3.5.17-1 ii libseccomp2 2.3.1-2.1 ii libstdc++6 8-20180207-2 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-bundle [ca-certificates] 20170309tarent1 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii gnupg 2.2.4-3 ii gnupg1 1.4.22-4 ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1 -- no debconf information
