Bug#471805: openoffice.org-core: spurious conflicts against older openoffice.org components

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 471805 - wontfix
severity 471805 minor
retitle 471805 openoffice.org-core: spurious conflicts against older openoffice.org components
thanks

Hi,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-03-20 11:11 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> 
> > Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> In the last few updates of openoffice.org I noticed that
> >> openoffice.org-core was always temporarily removed, it seems because it
> >
> > Because I don't upload i386 and the i386 buildd sometimes takes time...
> 
> I don't quite understand that.  Both -core and -calc are architecture
> dependent, after all.  And all packages were upgraded in that aptitude

You forgot that those binary-arch things conflict against the old
-common...

> run.

So there's no problem, is there?`(Except that apt *temporarily* removes
a package)

> >   * debian/control.in:
> >     - fix logic error, we of course should conflict against old
> >       openoffice.org-calcs in the new common, not the other way around
> >       (really closes: #464544).
> >       Go safe for the future; make -common Conflicts: against all the modules
> >       (<< ${base-version})
> >
> > Read the bug to see what too lax depends can cause....
> 
> I've read it, but it does not really seem related, it is about -common,
> not -core.  And the removals of -core predate this change, just run

See above.

> > Which is normal modus operandi of apt. Nothing to worry about.
> 
> I certainly won't lose sleep over that, but is generally safer to upgrade
> packages rather than remove and reinstall them.  In the former case dpkg
> can roll back the upgrade in case something goes wrong during unpacking,
> in the latter you are left with a broken package.

I am not the author of apt/dpkg.

> > [1] Because if you have the new -core, you also have the new -calc, if
> > not, you have the old versions there.
> 
> This is perfectly achieved by the versioned depends -calc has on -core.
> The additional conflicts of -core on -calc is redundant.

Ah, that was your goal to point out...

> See also bug #409411 for a similar instance in other packages.

I see. Although still, this is a working upgrade patch, the temporary
rremoval does not do harm.

Will have a look again...

Regards,

Rene