On 2015-03-11 13:24, Andre Wisplinghoff wrote: > Hi, > > dpkg Version 1.17.24 makes it impossible to use older PHP versions > like for example 5.4 from stable via pinning. Was this limitation > carefully considered? I'm sure i'm not the only one who needs to use > an older PHP version simply because there are clients that still use > the old version. > > Cheers, > Andre > > Hi Andre, Given the change that needed the forced upgrade is now reverted, I do not particular mind that the related "Breaks" are reverted as well. From my PoV it would also weaken the requirements for doing a "apt+dpkg first" upgrade, which is a somewhat common approach to upgrades. Feel free to file a bug against dpkg requesting that the dpkg maintainers drop "Breaks" for the "trigger cycles"-issues. If they provide an updated package without these "breaks" in due time before the release, we are willing to accept the dpkg change for Jessie (assuming here no other changes). However, please note that given what you are doing is unsupported, it is not a release critical bug in dpkg (nor in Debian). Thanks, ~Niels
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