[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#709522: Bug#709522: Bug#709522: xfce4: Upgrading from 4.8.3 did not upgrade xfce4-session
On jeu., 2013-05-30 at 11:24 +0200, Josep Lladonosa wrote:
> Well, the fact is that if xfce4 gets upgraded but not xfce4-session,
> some
> parts of xfce4 are not useable, so I would give some proposals to
> gracefully react:
xfce4 is just a metapackage in order to help people quickly install
(and upgrade) Xfce desktop environment. But nothing forces you to have
it installed.
Note that considering the dependencies, there's no way you can have
xfce4 4.10 installed without xfce4-session 4.10 installed too.
>
> I am not a maintainer, but from my point of view I think that
> something
> about it should be done during the upgrade, and there might be
> solutions.
> Just remembering and seaching a little options might be:
>
> a) just warn user
We already do that:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-preparations
> b) do some sort of "stopping" (saving?) xfe4-session (like some
> packages
> that ask to reload daemons) in order to be able to finish
> xfce4-session
> installation (and start it afterwards?.
> c) ask dev list to discuss the change of "depend" into
> "pre-depend" (don't
> think it is the good way, anyway this is for extreme situations... but
> why
> installing xfce4 if xfce4-session could not install?)
Again it's completely unrelated to xfce4 metapackage.
--
Yves-Alexis
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