Bug#323747: kdelibs-data: upgrading from 4:3.3.2-6.1 to 4:3.4.2-1 broke kicker & konqueror & more

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

severity 323747 serious
thanks

* Alejandro Exojo [Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:00:25 +0200]:

> El Jueves, 18 de Agosto de 2005 09:13, Helen Faulkner escribió:
> > I upgraded my version of kdelibs-data today, and when I rebooted, I found
> > that a number of things were broken:

> To which version of kdelibs-data you upgraded? Yesterday entered kdelibs 
> 3.4.2, and as Adeodato explained:

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/08/msg00089.html

> ...you can't upgrade KDE, until all packages depending on kdelibs are 
> recompiled. If you upgraded only kdelibs-data, you had a mixture of KDE 3.4 
> and 3.3.

  Helen and I talked on IRC, and I asked her to file this bug. While
  upgrading the kdelibs4 package to kdelibs4c2 ensures that incompatible
  stuff gets removed, this is not the case with kdelibs-data. IOW, if
  upgrading kdelibs-data alone causes trouble (and it does), then we
  have to introduce the appropriate package relationships to ensure this
  does not happen.

  On other news, Helen, I just realized this is the same bug as #311958,
  which is solved in sid but not in etch nor sarge. IOW, once kdelibs4c2
  is installed, it'll always go with an appropriate version of
  kdelibs-data, but KDE versions << 3.4 are still affected. The same fix
  can't be applied to those KDE versions, since it does not constitute a
  suitable upload for testing-proposed-updates, let alone stable-p-u. I
  guess we're stuck with a versioned << conflicts. :/ Oh, oh, wait:
  Conflicts: kdelibs4 should be enough, yay C++ transition!

                                 * * *

  Christopher: I just realized that our fix for #311958 leaves the
  kdelibs package in a state in which it can't be binNMUed, which is
  bad. Since dpkg lacks (at least for now) a smart = ${Source-Version}
  check, I guess we have to stick with:

    kdelibs4c2 Depends: kdelibs-data (>> 3.X), kdelibs-data (<< 3.X+1)

  Or perhaps: kdelibs-data (<< 3.X.50), in case alphas or betas are
  packaged.

  Or we may want to discuss:

    Depends: kdelibs-data (>> 3.X.Y), kdelibs-data (<< 3.X.Y+1).

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