Bug#591882: apt: fails to upgrade some packages properly
On 07/08/10 at 00:30 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Fr, 2010-08-06 at 11:04 -0400, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 06/08/10 at 11:35 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > > On Fr, 2010-08-06 at 02:40 -0400, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > > Package: apt
> > > > Version: 0.7.25.3
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have been testing upgrades from lenny to sid with a tool similar to
> > > > piuparts. I ran into many (~80) strange failures, where apt takes a
> > > > wrong decision about which packages to upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > All the logs are available from
> > > > http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/08/05/pkg-upgrade/
> > > > Here are the various cases:
> > > > package-not-upgraded/:
> > > > The package under test was not upgraded during apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > > > That is always because upgrading it would have required the removal of
> > > > another package. However, in the case of library packages being removed
> > > > to permit the upgrade, I was wondering whether it was possible to trick
> > > > apt into upgrading the package.
> > > >
> > > > package-uninstalled/:
> > > > The package under test was removed during apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > package-uninstalled/no-removal/ <= that's where the serious issues are
> > > > The package under test was removed during dist-upgrade, but no removal
> > > > was neded to get it back! It should really have been upgraded together
> > > > with the other packages.
> > > > There are quite a lot of failures related to emacs packages, so they
> > > > are separated in the logs.
> > > >
> > > > package-uninstalled/removals/:
> > > > A package was removed to permit the upgrade. I'm wondering if in some
> > > > cases, it would have made sense to auto-detect the correct solution.
> > >
> > > Please use a two stage upgrade process:
> > > apt-get upgrade
> > > apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > This will reduce the number of issues.
> >
> > I'm now doing:
> > apt-get install apt (to upgrade apt)
> > apt-get upgrade
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
> > And I don't really see any difference (I haven't tested all the packages
> > that were failing).
> >
> > Good examples of packages that fail are pyrex-mode and
> > python-application. Both get removed during apt-get dist-upgrade, but
> > can be installed without removing any package after that.
>
> At least those two work now with the latest commit in
> debian-experimental-ma.
Great! I'll install the experimental version instead of the unstable one
next time I run my tests. (probably not before ~1 week)
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