Bug#78859: marked as done (Forcing downgrade prevents upgrading back up, even when wanted.)
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From: Floris Kraak <floris@tobefree.cistron.nl>
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Subject: Forcing downgrade prevents upgrading back up, even when wanted.
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.7.2
Severity: minor
Last week a new, split package of isdnutils got uploaded to unstable.
The problem with this package was that during the upgrade, required
packages (the ipppd deamon) did not get downloaded as well. The result
was a broken ISDN subsystem - no ipppd, no connection. Problem - no
connection, no way to get the ipppd package. So, I forced a downgrade
using the isdnutils package from potato.
So far so good. isdnutils_1%3a3.1pre1b-3_i386.deb got replaced nicely
with the contents of isdnutils_3.0-13.deb, ipppd was installed again and
all cheered and rejoiced for the connection was once again.
Now, I went back, selected the ipppd package using dselect, ran apt-get
update and - no new isdnutils package! dselect stubbornly refused to
show the presence of the newer version - only the old package was there,
and since isdnutils-doc conflicted with the old package, isdnutils
cheerily got deselected by dselect.
Oops.
Running apt-get dist-upgrade shows the same problem. Is this a feature
or what? I still have the newer deb and I'm sure the whole thing will
resolve itself sooner or later but frankly, it's a bit annoying.
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tobefree 2.2.18pre9 #1 Mon Sep 18 23:53:00 CEST 2000 i686
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.2-18 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 16:28:52 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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> Previously Floris Kraak wrote:
>> Now, I went back, selected the ipppd package using dselect, ran apt-get
>> update and - no new isdnutils package! dselect stubbornly refused to
>> show the presence of the newer version - only the old package was there,
>> and since isdnutils-doc conflicted with the old package, isdnutils
>> cheerily got deselected by dselect.
> Sounds like apt didn't update the available file correctly.
It helps when the user runs update from within dselect.
Jason
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