Bug#587279: Bug#603680: libnautilus-extension1: breaks nautilus-share upgrade from lenny
[Debian policy: For reference, this is bug #603680.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:59:00PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:34, Bill Allombert
> <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:35:55PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> [… snip …]
> >> apt-squeeze recently (see #591882) got a third option:
> >> c) try installing another or-group member
> >>
> >> Note that while c) seems to be the "captain obvious" solution it introduces
> >> a big problem: a) and b) reduce the number of broken packages,
> >> but c) can add a lot more which could (real-world will tell if really)
> >> work against the current resolver determinism…
> >
> > Probably option c) should be removed. This makes upgrade process much less predictable.
> > An secondary issue with option c) is that this can lead apt to upgrade free
> > packages with non-free packages, if non-free packages are listed as alternative.
>
> Only if the free package is uninstallable in squeeze, but in this case a
> new installation has the same result.
Not necessarily: during an upgrade there are much more constraint to satisfy
that during an installation, as this is the case here.
> APT will try to fix the free package before it tries to fix the packages
> depending on the free one, so the non-free option is still only the fallback.
I do not think it is correct to ever upgrade a free package to a non-free one.
Now, apt is not at fault, the problem rather lie in a strange interpretation of
policy 2.1.2 by some developers. But we cannot ignore the issue either.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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