Re: Ensuring complete upgrades in applications with multiple binary packages
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:28:39PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> B. texlive-common could declare
> Conflicts: <long_list_of_texlive_packages_each_with_old_upstreamversion>
> But how would that work upon upgrade?
Very, very poorly. Versioned conflicts are advocated against in Policy 7.3,
because the package manager will often find it easier to remove the old
version of the package than to upgrade it to a version that's acceptable.
These sorts of conflicts seem to always be a major source of pain for
non-interactive dist-upgrades.
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