Package: apt Version: 0.7.25.3 Severity: serious Hi,
I have been testing upgrades from lenny to sid with a tool similar to piuparts. I ran into many (~80) strange failures, where apt takes a wrong decision about which packages to upgrade. All the logs are available from http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/08/05/pkg-upgrade/ Here are the various cases: package-not-upgraded/: The package under test was not upgraded during apt-get dist-upgrade. That is always because upgrading it would have required the removal of another package. However, in the case of library packages being removed to permit the upgrade, I was wondering whether it was possible to trick apt into upgrading the package. package-uninstalled/: The package under test was removed during apt-get dist-upgrade. package-uninstalled/no-removal/ <= that's where the serious issues are The package under test was removed during dist-upgrade, but no removal was neded to get it back! It should really have been upgraded together with the other packages. There are quite a lot of failures related to emacs packages, so they are separated in the logs. package-uninstalled/removals/: A package was removed to permit the upgrade. I'm wondering if in some cases, it would have made sense to auto-detect the correct solution. Thanks, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
