Bug#565867: aptitude: dist-upgrade does not replace old with new Provides package [texlive-binaries]

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
In the 0.6 series, the aptitude resolver is a lot more conservative than it used to be, due to repeated complaints by users that it was removing too many packages in the first solution that was presented. It looks like maybe I overcompensated, though (this is not the first report along these

Bug#565867: aptitude: dist-upgrade does not replace old with new Provides package [texlive-binaries]

2010-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 10:07 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: The main difficulty in cases like this is getting the algorithm to properly balance removals with upgrades. However, it looks like the old scoring system works just fine here. This command line: aptitude -o

Bug#565867: aptitude: dist-upgrade does not replace old with new Provides package [texlive-binaries]

2010-01-18 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.4-1 Severity: normal texlive currently has an upgrade from v2007 to v2009. It involves the replacement of texlive-base-bin by texlive-binaries. texlive-binaries Provides: texlive-base-bin. I understand this is the kind of scenario where simple upgrade will not