hi Andreas,
this has been introduced in commit 6cf9c41ffe1792e2e3f2207b4e00f902a28e697a
by Ian, and I think the reason was to provide an upgrade path from
qt4 to qt5.
Ian, how do you feel about making the qt4 package transitional?
I admit I'm lost on this :)
cheers,
G.
Il Martedì 16 Febbraio 2016 3:51, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> ha scritto:
Package: gambas3
Version: 3.8.4-2
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'jessie'.
It installed fine in 'jessie', then the upgrade to 'stretch' fails and
the jessie version is kept installed rather than upgraded.
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
This is apt problemresolver output from the jessie->stretch upgrade.
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
[...]
The following packages have been kept back:
gambas3 gambas3-ide
The following packages will be upgraded:
[...]
[...]
Investigating (0) gambas3-ide [ amd64 ] < 3.5.4-2 -> 3.8.4-2 > ( devel )
Broken gambas3-ide:amd64 Conflicts on gambas3-gb-qt4 [ amd64 ] < 3.5.4-2+b1
-> 3.8.4-2 > ( libdevel )
Considering gambas3-gb-qt4:amd64 12 as a solution to gambas3-ide:amd64 1
Holding Back gambas3-ide:amd64 rather than change gambas3-gb-qt4:amd64
[...]
Investigating (0) gambas3 [ amd64 ] < 3.5.4-2 -> 3.8.4-2 > ( devel )
Broken gambas3:amd64 Depends on gambas3-ide [ amd64 ] < 3.5.4-2 -> 3.8.4-2 >
( devel ) (>= 3.8.4-2)
Considering gambas3-ide:amd64 1 as a solution to gambas3:amd64 0
Holding Back gambas3:amd64 rather than change gambas3-ide:amd64
Try to Re-Instate (1) gambas3-ide:amd64
Try to Re-Instate (1) gambas3:amd64
Done
So what happened here?
gambas3-gb-qt4 is installed in jessie and an upgradable candidate,
but gambas3-ide, which is also installed in jessie, now
Conflicts: gambas3-gb-qt4.
gambas3-gb-qt4 has a score of 12 (there are several rdepends) while the
gambas3-ide and gambas3 meta-packages only have rather low scores of
1 and 0, respectively. So gambas3-gb-qt4 wins and does not get removed.
So one ends up with the jessie versions of gambas3 and gambas3-ide still
installed while all other packages have been upgraded to the stretch
version.
Right now I have no suggestions how to solve this upgrade issue.
That Conflicts: gambas3-gb-qt4 is nasty. Is the gambas3-gb-qt4 package
still needed? Could it be converted into a transitional package?
cheers,
Andreas
