On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:01:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> However, this is another side of already archived
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543365 (ironically, reported
> by you too). On i386 we have the issue: libc6-i686 strictly Pre-Depends on
> libc6 (= ...), and whatever package from this two cupt tries to upgrade first,
> the pre-dependency will be broken.
>
> Let me try to add libc maintainers to the loop to know the correct upgrade
> path.
Hmm. "remove old libc6-i686, upgrade libc6, install new libc6-i686"
seems to be a sequence where the Pre-Depends never breaks. Since
libc6-i686 is not needed for the system to function properly, removing
it temporarily is not a problem. Now the question is can it be
generalized to other packages?
Gabor
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