Re: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 07:40:49PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> 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.
There was a similar discussion a year ago[0] where it was suggested that
a core r package should provide a virtual package, similar to
perlapi-5.18.1. Then some build helper should ensure that gets added to
the Depends of relevant packages through some substvar (likely
${R:Depends}).
[0]: http://lists.debian.org/87bo9ztrww.fsf@deep-thought.43-1.org
Apparently, there hasn't been any action in that direction.
Cheers,
--
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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