Bug#639290: upgrade from squeeze to wheezy fails on i386 (pre-depends loop)
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 08:55:56PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 06:08:26PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > There is libapt-pkg-perl and when you have packages depending on that
> > upgrading apt separately from perl is not possible.
>
> That means telling users to just upgrade to the wheezy apt before
> dist-upgrading is insufficient. So I think that yes, we should revert the
> breaks.
OK, I've requested that in #640300.
> > (I still think we should have a Breaks entry somewhere, probably gcc,
> > but we have plenty of time to discuss and implement that afterwards.)
>
> gcc seems like a reasonable place to do this.
Thanks. As the default on all the release architectures is currently
gcc-4.6, I suppose that's the right place. If somebody has better ideas,
please let me know.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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