tag 471805 - wontfix severity 471805 minor retitle 471805 openoffice.org-core: spurious conflicts against older openoffice.org components thanks
Hi, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-03-20 11:11 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> In the last few updates of openoffice.org I noticed that > >> openoffice.org-core was always temporarily removed, it seems because it > > > > Because I don't upload i386 and the i386 buildd sometimes takes time... > > I don't quite understand that. Both -core and -calc are architecture > dependent, after all. And all packages were upgraded in that aptitude You forgot that those binary-arch things conflict against the old -common... > run. So there's no problem, is there?`(Except that apt *temporarily* removes a package) > > * debian/control.in: > > - fix logic error, we of course should conflict against old > > openoffice.org-calcs in the new common, not the other way around > > (really closes: #464544). > > Go safe for the future; make -common Conflicts: against all the > > modules > > (<< ${base-version}) > > > > Read the bug to see what too lax depends can cause.... > > I've read it, but it does not really seem related, it is about -common, > not -core. And the removals of -core predate this change, just run See above. > > Which is normal modus operandi of apt. Nothing to worry about. > > I certainly won't lose sleep over that, but is generally safer to upgrade > packages rather than remove and reinstall them. In the former case dpkg > can roll back the upgrade in case something goes wrong during unpacking, > in the latter you are left with a broken package. I am not the author of apt/dpkg. > > [1] Because if you have the new -core, you also have the new -calc, if > > not, you have the old versions there. > > This is perfectly achieved by the versioned depends -calc has on -core. > The additional conflicts of -core on -calc is redundant. Ah, that was your goal to point out... > See also bug #409411 for a similar instance in other packages. I see. Although still, this is a working upgrade patch, the temporary rremoval does not do harm. Will have a look again... Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]