Bug#699759: apt: score computation may prefer obsolete installed packages over their successors
In general, I wonder a bit why we are not just +2 all priority scores and
have therefore always positive (unsigned) numbers.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> This would obviously only work for people having the point release
> installed. As far as I am aware, updates from one release to the
> next are supported, without any installed updates. So, people with
Section 4.2 of the release notes says that it is assumed that you have
upgraded to the latest point-release of squeeze before going for wheezy.
So we should be fine in this regard; if we assume people actually follow
this advice of course.
> Side note: For Wheezy -> Jessie upgrades we should be in the
> position to upgrade APT first, and then use jessie's APT to
> upgrade the remaining system to jessie. This might involve
I hope so, but I have my doubts. For squeeze we were very close
to require to upgrade all kde packages if you dared to upgrade dpkg.
(just prevented by the need to upgrade udev first, which required dpkg,
but it might not always be possible to make this work as hoped)
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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