Package: empathy Version: 2.28.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
When I attempt to dist-upgrade my sid box to the latest empathy, I see the following: dilin...@mycelium:~$ dpkg -l libemp* empathy Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==========================-==========================-==================================================================== ii empathy 2.26.2-1 High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy ii libempathy-common 2.26.2-1 High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy (library common ii libempathy-gtk-common 2.26.2-1 High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy (GTK common file ii libempathy-gtk19 2.26.2-1 High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy (GTK library) ii libempathy23 2.26.2-1 High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy (low-level libra dilin...@mycelium:~$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade [sudo] password for dilinger: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: empathy libempathy-gtk19 libempathy23 The following NEW packages will be installed: empathy-doc geoclue libchamplain-0.4-0 libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-0.10-0 libgeoclue0 The following packages will be upgraded: libempathy-common libempathy-gtk-common libkpathsea4 libtelepathy-glib-dev libtelepathy-glib0 5 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 3,712kB/4,158kB of archives. After this operation, 4,026kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Apt wanting to uninstall empathy is not ideal. :) There are a number of workarounds that can be done in empathy to provide a smooth upgrade. These include having packages "Provides: libempathy" and "Provides: libempathy-gtk" (if many SONAME changes are expected, this probably makes more sense) or listing the old packages with Conflicts/Replaces. Libempathy-gtk28 might have: Conflicts: libempathy-gtk14, libempathy-gtk19 Replaces: libempathy-gtk14, libempathy-gtk19 Likewise, libempathy30 might have: Conflicts: libempathy14, libempathy23 Replaces: libempathy14, libempathy23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
