At Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:47:00 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >>> (3) This problem is occured when your dpkg is old (woody) and you > >>> want to install sarge's glibc-doc. I wonder we need to support > >>> such situation. > > >> I think we should. People mixing stable and testing/unstable, or more > >> simply doing stage-wise upgrades is relatively common. We should give > >> them the hint that dpkg should be upgraded first. > > > Did you confirm this bug? > > I encountered it with glibc-doc, upgraded dpkg to fix it and continued > my upgrade. So, I didn't see if it hits other packages.
There're two bug reports separately, so I guess dpkg + glibc-doc made breakage in the past. > > At least the current upgrade does not induce this problem, I think > > we don't need depends or conflicts. > > If the woody -> sarge transition is OK, then the need for it is > greatly reduced. I believe so. I wonder why dpkg broke glibc-doc installation at that time. If no one object, I'll close this bug instead of adding depends/conflicts. Please report if you have trouble with another woody->sarge upgrade. Regards, -- gotom
