Bug#656438: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#656438: piuparts: doing distupgrade tests of disapperaring packages

2012-01-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, thanks for bringing up this issue in the BTS! On Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > we need some solution to do distupgrade tests on "disappering" packages. yes, that would be nice to have. > Possible outcomes: > * the old package is left on the system after the

Bug#656438: piuparts: doing distupgrade tests of disapperaring packages

2012-01-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: piuparts Version: 0.42 Severity: wishlist Hi, we need some solution to do distupgrade tests on "disappering" packages. These can't currently be tested because they are no longer in the package list of the target distribution. One possibility could be --extra-old-packages=the-disappea