Hi Andreas, On 2015-02-10 23:05, Andreas Henriksson wrote: >> There is no need to carry this conflict for more than one stable release. > [...] > > That's why *wheezy* shipped a gdm3 package with a Conflicts against gdm...
But nothing in wheezy ensured an upgrade from gdm to gdm3. A transitional dummy package would have helped. The actual error showed up doing an upgrade test of the xfswitch-plugin package, which in wheezy carries Depends: gdm | gdm3 so it was sufficient to just keep squeeze's gdm package installed during the upgrade to wheezy, causing the problems show up now where it switched to Depends: gdm3 which causes the upgrade happening now after the conflict is gone. Adding a Conflicts: gdm to xfswitch-plugin probably won't help since it won't ensure a specific upgrade/install/remove ordering between gdm and gdm3 ... somewhat later ... OK, there are only less than 40 logfiles mentioning gdm, I'll check in how many cases gdm survives the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy (or jessie). A significant fraction is obsolete packages. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
