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Bug#371163: marked as done (no provision made for any kind of upgrade path for third-party packages that use /usr/X11R6/bin)

Your message dated Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:50 +0200
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and subject line Bug#371163: no provision made for any kind of upgrade path for third-party packages that use /usr/X11R6/bin
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Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.20
Severity: normal

I have a small apt repository at work containing some third-party
packages that use /usr/X11R6/bin. How am I supposed to provide a clean
upgrade path for my users? If x11-common is upgraded first, it will
flame out and die. But there's no way I can ensure that my package is
upgraded first by apt-get dist-upgrade.

It seems that the only option is to fork x11-common and add my packages
to its conflicts, however, this ia a) going to be a horrible pain to
maintain and b) doesn't scale to support users who use several different
third-party apt repositories. Debian does not normally cause this kind
of problem for third party apt repositories.

FWIW, if you're handling this case by adding *all* conflicts for
third-party packages to the mighty conflicts line of death, the
third-party packages in question are:

xcalibrate (<= 1.2)
xserver-tinyx-fbdev (<= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5.1)

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see shy jo

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Yes, we were adding conflicts for all packages that use /usr/X11R6/bin/
but we are not going to add these third party packages now, closing.

Brice

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