Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Howard Mann wrote: > > [cut] > > When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent > > apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated > > apps like "TLinker." > > > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade > > process in Debian - using apt-get I presume - > > generally easier ? > > [cut] > [cut] > The situation with python is handled as well. An attempt by you to > upgrade python from 1.4 to 1.5, would trigger an error. In dselect, a > screen would pop up and tell you what packages still depend on py 1.4 > (a dependency against "1.4 and above" would be ok), and would warn you > to upgrade now would likely break these packages. > Shouldn't rpm have refused the python upgrade as well? I'm pretty sure it understands dependencies and versions.
Perhaps this just confirms what I've noted before: the debs are generally of better quality than the rpms. Maybe having an experienced Debian maintainer for each package helps a lot.
