On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 09:22:13 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 06:50:03PM +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 01:12:20 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > Just remove the embassy packages. This is a perfectly acceptable solution that > > > I accepted in advance in the first email of this thread. > > > > > That's not going to fix emboss. Are you going to fix that one, or > > should it get removed as well? > > I can prepare an update to add Breaks in emboss-lib, libajax6 and libnucleus6 > in Squeeze, to open the way to a safe removal of the embassy pakcages. But > EMBOSS 6.1 is an obsolete upstream version. The package in Sid is by all means > superior, and does not need a Breaks declaration unless we would like to support > the use of a mixture of Lenny and Squeeze. > We do support partial upgrades. If a package combination is allowed by their declared relationships, and doesn't work, that's a serious bug in those packages. Now I don't know the details of emboss and empathy, so I don't know what breaks when mixing lenny and squeeze, but hopefully you do, so you can explain. [...] > If you were thinking about other release-critical issues, please open a > bug so that our discussion can be more concrete. > I've opened one, but I'd still like answers to the questions I asked in this thread. Cheers, Julien
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