Re: Bug#535645: Bug #535645: Wrongfull removal of ia32-libs-tools
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 06:32:38PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:37 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > This assumes that users will continue to have ia32-libs-tools installed
> > during the transition to multiarch. What guarantees that this will be the
> > case? Does removing ia32-libs-tools also remove all the packages that were
> > installed using it?
> Interesting thought. If all packages generated by ia32-libs-tools were
> configured to depend on ia32-libs-tools, that might allow a much cleaner
> conflict specification? Just conflict with ia32-libs-tools?
The conflict specification would be cleaner; the upgrade path would not, as
conflicts at the base of a dependency tree tend to confuse apt into giving
suboptimal upgrade solutions.
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