Bug#708521: pu: package gcc-4.7/4.7.2-5+deb7u1
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On 2013-05-21 23:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (16/05/2013):
>>> I'd like to get gcc-4.7 updated in wheezy to add an extra Breaks
>>> that will fix some upgrade paths from squeeze (#690172). It's
>>> mainly about giving apt a small push to remove some obsolete
>>> packages (that existed in squeeze but no longer exist in wheezy)
>>> and therefore properly upgrade all packages and don't 'keep back'
>>> that many.
>>>
>>> I ve been testing this in piuparts for a long time now without
>>> running into problems, but getting much cleaner upgrade results
>>> :-)
>> I don't think this qualifies for a stable update, FWIW.
>
> Yeah. And I'm not entirely sure about (as in: I really do fear) the
> possible side effects in {complex,real life} upgrade scenarios.
I'm pretty confident this only has an influence on the upgrades that
didn't upgrade gcc-4.4-base (and kept the version from squeeze).
I can help testing upgrade paths in advance if you can describe some
squeeze package sets you are interested in.
And I'll help debugging+fixing in case there are any unexpected failures
caused by this.
For the piuparts failures that will be fixed by this change see this list:
http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze2wheezy/packages_have_been_kept_back_error.html
this fixes the 20 packages with a *_None.log there and allows testing
more rdepends (the number to the left of the log
For testing wheezy 7.0 -> 7.1 upgrades we now have a new piuparts suite
"wheezy2proposed" http://piuparts.debian.org/wheezy2proposed/
and I plan to set up squeeze2wheezy-proposed, too.
These would be the ideal upgrade testbeds.
Andreas
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