However according to our release notes we only support upgrading from release x to x+1, skipping releases is not allowed.
I'm not talking about skipping releases but about partial upgrades.
Thus …
> foo/testing requires bar >=1.1 to work but just states "Depends: bar >=1", and bar/stable is 1.0.42
assume that Stable has bar/stable==1.0.42 and foo/stable==2.1, while Testing has foo/stable==2.2. $USER adds Testing (or possibly stable/backports) to their apt.sources, updates foo, observes breakage, and now needs to dig through dependencies to figure out what went wrong.
Yes I know that this cannot happen when people simply dist-upgrade, but IMHO the world isn't always that simple.
So when I, as a maintainer, notice a problem along these lines,
do I file a bug? Conversely, when I get this sort of bug report
for one of my packages, is it OK to reply "that's not supported,
go away"?
-- -- mit freundlichen Grüßen -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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