Bug#568515: E: unable to schedule circular actions
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:16:06PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> No, no one package manager can upgrade packages in this situation directly, in
> theory. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560896#74.
> libapt-based package managers upgrade them indirectly silently, cupt - does
> not, by default.
And why does cupt that different? I see no reason to break other
packages by changing behaviour there. But anyway...
> If Replaces don't make sense there, then Conflicts, probably, too.
Eh, no, read again what Replaces: has for semantics in the policy (7.3 and
7.6.1)
Replaces: just says that it replaces files. Which here obviously is not
the case. (Or for replacing packages completely with Conflicts/Replaces/Provides
as in 7.6.2)
Replaces: has no business here.
The Conflicts is to prevent e.g. 3.2 core with 3.1 langpacks
(which indeed probably can be achieved by Breaks:)
Grüße/Regards,
René
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