Re: Problem with btrfs-progs package
Hi Simon,
On 31 May 2016 at 08:03, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2016 at 12:38:48 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
>> Could this be a user error, that both updated btrfs-tools &
>> btrfs-progs binary package are not pulled from the backports pocket?
>
> This would probably work more reliably in the presence of backports,
> pinning, experimental etc. if you had
>
> Package: btrfs-tools
> Depends: btrfs-progs (= ${binary:Version})
>
> In general I think it's a good idea for intra-source-package dependencies
> like this to be in lockstep: there seems no advantage in introducing an
> extra thing that could go wrong, since anyone who has a source package
> available to them should have all of its binaries available at matching
> versions.
I've pushed this "be more strict!" control to github and uploaded a
package to mentors. Please weigh-in on the "explicit installation of
newpackage" issue, and I'll add the additional fix tomorrow.
Best regards,
Nicholas
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