Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:46:50PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Eugene V. Lyubimkin]
> > Second, why the APT's ability to upgrade is broken under these
> > conditions? Unless I'm missing something, the upgrade cannot be
> > started in the middle of another upgrade [1].
> > [1] If we count the situation for resuming broken upgrade, there is a
> > some chance you'll have to call dpkg manually or some hacks
> > to proceed anyway.
> Not always. There are states dpkg goes through that 'apt-get install'
> can "recover" from on its own. You don't always have to go to dpkg.
> Also, what if apt wants to call one of its auxilliary binaries during
> the install/upgrade? I imagine it's not implemented that way _now_,
> but a Pre-Depends would make such a thing a lot safer if they want it.
> (Same is true if they want to dlopen a library during the install, but
> that's somewhat less likely.)
"We might some day later change the way apt works for upgrades" is not an
argument for adding a pre-dependency now.
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