Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem
On Tuesday, 16. April 2013 10:40:21 Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Stuart Prescott also determined that kdepim + kde-plasma-desktop are
> enough to reproduce this problem.
I could reproduce the problem in piuparts with installing/upgrading these two
packages, but it required --install-recommends. So there may be even a
smaller set of packages needed to reproduce the problem by cutting out some
recommended packages.
On Wednesday, 17. April 2013 10:15:27 Helmut Grohne wrote:
> To that end I looked for other options, specifically for why docbook-xml
> Pre-Depends on xml-core. The reason here was a etch -> lenny upgrade
...
> 2) docbook-xml does not need this Pre-Depends anymore.
...
> docbook-xsl instead of docbook-xml. The issue is not reproducible this
> way. This makes 2) a least possible.
If you post a proposed patch for docbook-xml I can throw it into my piuparts
engine and see if this has any bad effect on the squeeze->wheezy upgrades.
Andreas
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