Bug#699759: apt: score computation may prefer obsolete installed packages over their successors

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

On 2013-05-09 17:10, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 02:20:42PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> I'd like to see if this issue could be solved in an early point release
>> for wheezy, too, to have a more sane scoring at work for wheezy->jessie
>> upgrades.
> 
> This would obviously only work for people having the point release
> installed.

I know. So I would have liked to see this in r0, but forgot to submit
the well tested patch in time ...

Getting this in an early point release (r1) should increase the
likelyhood that people upgrade with that fix.

> As far as I am aware, updates from one release to the
> next are supported, without any installed updates. So, people with
> the update might have a different result than those without the
> update. I don't know whether this is a problem for anyone, but I
> wanted to let you know.

And like I did piuparts tests using a patched apt to do the upgrade, we
can also unpatch apt and use that for a special wheezy->jessie upgrade test.


Andreas