On 14 May 2023 at 19:50, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 15 May 2023 at 02:21, Andreas Beckmann wrote: | | Package: libgsl27 | | Version: 2.7.1+dfsg-3 | | Severity: serious | | Tags: patch | | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | | Usertags: piuparts | | | | Hi, | | | | libgsl25 from bullseye and libgsl27 from bookworm are not co-installable | | due to their strict dependency on libgslcblas0. Sometimes apt has | | problems handling this transitive conflict correctly (i.e. removing the | | obsolete library) and instead tries to keep the obsolete package | | installed and hold some upgradable packages at their bullseye versions. | | Turning the transitive conflict into an explicit one helps apt making | | the right choice. | | | | Please consider applying the attached patch. | | Yes thank you -- that sounds sensible. And we would then nag the release | team to get this out in the release?
Oh, and to be extra plain: upload to unstable as a 'serious' bug fix? Dirk | Dirk | | | | Andreas | | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT 0001-libgsl27-Add-Breaks-libgsl25-for-smoother-upgrades-f.patch, plain text] | | -- | dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
