Re: Bug#498700: Missing upgrade path from libdb4.2-ruby1.8 to libdb-ruby1.8

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

Hello, apt & aptitude people, could you perhaps take a quick look at
#498700 and comment? Thanks in advance.

* Frans Pop [Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:06:58 +0200]:

> On Sunday 28 September 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > Isn't this a bug of our upgrading tools, that should prefer to install
> > a new, non-obsolete package A that Provides: B, rather than keeping a
> > no-longer-present-in-the-lists B installed?

> Possibly. But as long as those tools don't support that it will have to be 
> solved in the packages themselves.

> Feel free to clone the bug to apt/aptitude/whatever if you feel that 
> should be implemented, but I'd think that would be squeeze material, not 
> lenny.

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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