On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 08:41:03AM -0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2024-11-30, Marc Haber <mh+debian-...@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > (1)
> > I did apt update, apt upgrade first, that worked so far, but left a
> > couple hundred packages unupdated. The following apt full-upgrade wanted
> > to remove most of them including plasma-workspace, I didn't let apt do
> > that and instead did apt install plasma-workspace explicitly, which did
> > the update alright and only left a few things undone that could be
> > solved by some additional rounds of apt autoremove, apt upgrade, apt
> > full-upgrade.
> 
> <puts on old man's hat>
> Back in the days of the 3-4 and 4-5 upgrades, we needed to tweak some
> conflicts, dependencies and breaks. And occasionally reintroduce dummy
> packages to smooth the upgrade.
> 
> I expect the same needing to happen here once the package set mostly
> have stabilized.
> </hat>
> 
> /Sune
>  - who hasn't been around as long as Marc 

I would still step back to your expertise in package dependencies. I
have never worked that deeply inside the apt resolver. If I tried the
magic you did back then it'd have taken me years and hundreds of
uploads to get right.

Greetings
Marc

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