(better late than never) 2010/6/3 Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org>: > Jacob Sparre Andersen writes: >> David Kalnischkies wrote: >>> With the break you can force the update of old-libs, which >>> could depend in their new version on the new-libs. > > OK, I just tried that (in a local repository). Having gnat break all > the -dev packages in Lenny does not help; the broken packages are marked > as such in aptitude but not removed by default. Worse, gnat is now > marked as broken too (without the Breaks: it is not). Even if I press > '+' on gnat, this still does not cause any broken packages to be > removed; I must mark them all for removal manually with '-'. So we're > back to square one.
Mhhh. What does broken mean here? As far as i know aptitude it should come up with a solution in the end in which all packages are in a consistent state (=not half-installed / unconfigured). So it should remove "broken" packages as broken is not a valid state a package can be after a complete $packagemanager run… Just for reference, what does "apt-get dist-upgrade -s" proposes? ( -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1 will tell you also why in a more or less cryptical way). It should really work to break old-lib ( << squeeze version) in gnat, to force an upgrade of old-lib to (at least) the "squeeze version", which could depend on your new-lib to get it installed… >>> 2. the old-libs will stay installed in at least of the form of a >>> transitional package in oldlibs as at least apt/lenny has no support >>> for disappear packages so this trick can't be used (not sure about >>> dpkg, aptitude uses apt facility in this regard, so also no support). >> >> This is ugly, but not horrible. > > Does apt/squeeze have support for disappearing packages? Yeap, or at least >= 0.7.26~exp5 has and apt is registered for an abi transition/binnmu series so it will hopefully find its way into unstable/testing some day in the future… (currently blocked) Best regards, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim4_sfm0crslumw48coy--z2ifhhlypxn8en...@mail.gmail.com
