Bug#1060700: Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts

2024-02-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17/01/2024 14:07, Helmut Grohne wrote: I somehow missed how Ben's libnfsidmap bug #1058937 works slightly simpler. Given that $second has a conflict with the installed version of $first, one can skip that second step and instead install $second directly with dpkg -i. So no, this weird selecti

Bug#1060700: Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts

2024-02-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 12/01/2024 12:31, Helmut Grohne wrote: For the gzip case, we have the additional question whether we tolerate the temporary policy violation for the trixie upgrade or halt the /usr-move and retry with a modified dpkg (that could land in trixie, so we could complete in forky). What's th

Bug#1060700: Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts

2024-02-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 09:53:20AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > On 12/01/2024 12:31, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > For the gzip case, we have the additional question whether we tolerate > > the temporary policy violation for the trixie upgrade or halt the > > /usr-move and retry with a modified dpk

Bug#1060700: Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts

2024-02-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 09:48:00AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > To check I have understood correctly: one may see loss of files when doing > dpkg -i of a package where it Conflicts: with an installed package? Unfortunately, this is real. apt avoids this, because it recognizes that it can remove

Bug#1060700: marked as done (Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts)

2024-02-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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