On 2011-08-16 10:35 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> It is true that both "aptitude full-upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> would work, but then iceape is in danger of getting autoremoved
> immediately. Since most systems have packages installed that depend
> on or recommend www-browser or mail-reader, this is not likely to happen
> for many people, but the danger is there.
>
> You can avoid that by using versioned Conflicts (or better, Breaks) and
> leaving the cleanup of the transitional package to the sysadmin. Then
> "aptitude safe-upgrade" actually works.
Another problem with the current approach is that apt will remove
iceape-browser before installing iceape. Thus, if /usr/bin/iceape has
been manually configured as preferred alternative for x-www-browser or
mozilla, these settings will be lost.
Cheers,
Sven
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