Bug#603680: libnautilus-extension1: breaks nautilus-share upgrade from lenny
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:34, Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:35:55PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
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>> apt-squeeze recently (see #591882) got a third option:
>> c) try installing another or-group member
>>
>> Note that while c) seems to be the "captain obvious" solution it introduces
>> a big problem: a) and b) reduce the number of broken packages,
>> but c) can add a lot more which could (real-world will tell if really)
>> work against the current resolver determinism…
>
> Probably option c) should be removed. This makes upgrade process much less predictable.
> An secondary issue with option c) is that this can lead apt to upgrade free
> packages with non-free packages, if non-free packages are listed as alternative.
Only if the free package is uninstallable in squeeze, but in this case a
new installation has the same result.
APT will try to fix the free package before it tries to fix the packages
depending on the free one, so the non-free option is still only the fallback.
Or could you provide a case in which it behaves differently?
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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