On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:08:03PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > Are you sure? > > yes. > > > Something needs to prevent a stable system from upgrading libncurses > > before ncurses-bin. > > doesn't matter. the only thing that matters is, that if you do an > upgrade from etch to sid, all ncurses packages are updated and each of > the new ones depends on each other, so that none of the old ncurses stayes. Not only are partial upgrades failing to be supported, but (equivalently I think) the system is broken during the upgrade period.
> everything else, especially downgrades (which you seem to do all the > time) are not support anyway. As you know, I'm aware that downgrades are not guaranteed to work [0]. However there's only a limited number of reasons why, and AFAICS there's no reason why downgrades cause problems for ncurses. My downgrade here was strictly for convenience and to demonstrate that nothing prevents that combination of package/versions from being installed. If there's something that prevents that package/version combination in a general *up*grade path (not necessarily a dist-upgrade) then I'm happy and I'll add it to my mental list of reasons why downgrades are Not Supported. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/01/msg00241.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
