Bug#701808: apt: does not solve libjpeg-dev transition on squeeze -> wheezy upgrades
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 13:43:13 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2013-02-27 13:30, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 normal
> > This isn't a serious bug in apt.
>
> But I would consider it as a serious *upgrade* issue that shows up in
> many different packages:
>
> http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze2wheezy/packages_have_been_kept_back_issue.html
>
> All packages in this list have something "kept back" during the upgrade
> - and in many cases (especially those not directly involving obsolete
> packages) libjpeg-dev is involved.
> And keeping back something that is upgradable (or even removing the
> package-to-be-tested during the upgrade while it is installable fine in
> wheezy) is a serious upgrade bug to me.
>
It's
1) not ideal, but also not serious
2) not something apt can do anything about at this point anyway
So if there's no reasonably sane fix for it in the affected packages
then we'll have to live with this.
Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
Logilab http://www.logilab.fr/
Informatique scientifique & gestion de connaissances
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