Bug#699759: apt: score computation may prefer obsolete installed packages over their successors
On 2013-05-08 21:39, Michael Vogt wrote:
>> I'm attaching a patch that just skips regative scores from rdeps. I
>> thought I sent this long ago ...
>> It has gotten a lot of testing for doing piuparts squeeze->wheezy
>> upgrades with apt/wheezy+patch (backported to squeeze). Compared to
>> apt/wheezy (backported to squeeze, too) this solves the score issue
>> for a few upgrade paths and does not introduce new problems.
>>
>> This has mainly an effect on "leaf" packages with scores <= 2.
>> "Skewing" the score by +/- 1 makes a big difference here.
>>
>> 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.
> [..]
>
> I merged this into the recent unstable upload and its also available
> in the debian-wheezy branch. Should I do a proposed-updates upload
> with this fix right away or shall we wait a little bit to see how well
> the change works in unstable first?
pu-NEW for wheezy 7.1 will close next weekend, so now may be a good time
to approach this ....
Andreas
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