On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 09:49:03AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.4~beta2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> mariadb-server-10.0 should be 'upgraded' to mariadb-server-10.1 but instead
> dist-upgrade removes mariadb-server mariadb-server-10.0
> mariadb-server-core-10.0 without upgrading anything.
>
> Gr,
> Olaf
I'm not a solver expert, but:
>
> # apt dist-upgrade
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> mariadb-server mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server-core-10.0
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> # apt install mariadb-server
> 1 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
This one removes a package more (and in addition to that also does
other changes), so it really is worse solution than just removing
mariadb-server altogether.
I'm not sure, but maybe we are not weighting removals of automatically
installed packages lower than removals of manually installed packages?
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