Re: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?
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- Subject: Re: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?
- From: Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 19:40:49 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-04-05, Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr> wrote:
> The maintainer think that he does not need to do anything about
> that. People should just upgrade all their packages from stable to
> testing when r-base-core is upgraded.
> Other people (and me) disagree and think that other broken r-related
> packages must be either removed or upgraded automatically by apt
> when r-base-core is upgraded (due to additional conflicts/breaks/...
> declarations)
I agree with you and other people. partial upgrade should work.
Requiring packages to be uninstalled is a great way of ensuring that
partial upgrades works.
/Sune
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