Bug#698778: preapproval of expect/5.45-3

[Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@nes.ru>]

Hi!

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
>>
> Anything like that needs to get tons of testing to ensure it doesn't
> have unwanted results in squeeze to wheezy upgrades.

expectk has two reverse dependencies in squeeze: exmh (suggests)
xsmbrowser (depends). Both are removed from wheezy and sid.

Currently, update expect from squeeze (5.44.1.15-4) to wheezy (5.45-2)
goes silently, leaving expectk broken (/usr/bin/expectk fails to run
with the following message: /usr/bin/expectk: error while loading
shared libraries: libexpect.so.5.44.1.15: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory). If exmh is installed it continues
working, though I'm not sure if somewhere deep exmh will not try to
run no more working expectk. xsmbrowser fails immediately with the
same message as expectk (bug #686364).

Dist-upgrade to proposed 5.45-3 removes expectk and xsmbrowser (if
they are installed). It's a desirable behavior as neither package
works with expect 5.45-*. exmh stays and runs.

I didn't try full upgrate from squeeze to wheezy, just these four
packages (expect, expectk, xambrowser, exmh) in wheezy. I think that
the proposed 5.45-3 behaves better than 5.45-2 on upgrade.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan