Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> 
> > Well OK, but please be aware of the cases where a kid leaves his
> > village for a trip to the big city and his single chance to do an
> > apt-get dist-upgrade.  He can't just try again tomorrow if things
> > don't work out.
> 
> So what? Then they don't have the bleading edge version of the package
> but their old non upgrade one. Big deal.

I think the point is that dist-upgrade can sometimes do the Wrong
Thing in cases like this.