Re: Bug#667599: dolfin-dev: fails to upgrade from squeeze - apt does not find an upgrade path
On 0, Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> wrote:
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade
from 'squeeze'. It installed fine in 'squeeze', then the upgrade to
'wheezy' fails.
[snip]
Ouch! apt shouldn't remove the package that is to be tested (and can
be installed in clean wheezy without problems).
Exactly, *APT* should not do that... why is this reported against
dolfin? I tried to reproduce this bug with aptitude instead of apt,
and it seems that aptitude is a bit smarter than apt as it doesn't
remove dolfin-dev but offers to upgrade it to the newer version.
IMO, this bug should be reassigned to APT. It also happens with
mingw-ocaml (see #662746). I'm CC'ing APT maintainers to have their
input on this kind of issues.
Followed steps to reproduce:
#0. cowbuilder-squeeze --login
#1. apt-get install --no-install-recommends dolfin-dev
#2. sed -i s/stable/wheezy/ /etc/apt/sources.list
#3. apt-get update
#4. note that `apt-get dis-upgrade` fails
#5. and that `aptitude full-upgrade` works
Regards,
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Mehdi Dogguy
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