Re: Bug#575786: dpkg: refuses to unpack package having conflicts+replaces of virtual package
severity 575786 important
thanks
On Sun, 09 May 2010, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Totally tired with having this bug here and there with different
> packages, I change my mind and bump the severity of this bug to
> serious, as dpkg fails to comply with §7.6.2 of Debian policy,
> including an example in the policy:
I don't agree with your interpretation. The packaging system doesn't refer
only to dpkg but to the whole system: apt + dpkg.
Currently the non-regression tests of dpkg ensure that doing a dpkg -i
in your situation effectively fails:
http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/pkg-tests.git;a=tree;f=t-conflict-provide-replace-virtual;hb=master
So it's not really a mistake and I don't agree with the RC severity.
I agree it would be nice to be able to tell dpkg somehow to take the
decision alone without having to resort to remove with --force-depends
or similar. Thus I'm keeping the bug open at severity important for now.
But please understand that it's not a priority for us right now. If you
want to see this fixed, by all means please try to provide a patch and
stop raising the severity.
Cheers,
--
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