Re: Re: Bug#906183: Dependency change and upgrade

2018-09-26 Thread Devarajulu, Mohanasundaram
Hi Russ, Just checked it. Yes, apt upgrade does upgrade successfully. Thank you so much. My whole question is mute now. Regards Mohan

Re: Bug#906183: Dependency change and upgrade

2018-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
"Devarajulu, Mohanasundaram" writes: > There are few reasons why I believe upgrade does not bring in entirely > new packages by default when dependencies are changed. IIRC there's a difference here between "apt-get upgrade" and "apt upgrade". The latter is equivalent to "apt-get

Re: Re: Bug#906183: Dependency change and upgrade

2018-09-25 Thread Devarajulu, Mohanasundaram
There are few reasons why I believe upgrade does not bring in entirely new packages by default when dependencies are changed. 1. The man page of apt-get says the following upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the

Re: Bug#906183: Dependency change and upgrade

2018-09-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:36:30AM +, Devarajulu, Mohanasundaram wrote: > During the upgrade if all the packages are installed then upgrade is > going through well. If only the dev package with the problem and its > dependencies are installed, by default apt keeps the packages back as it >

Bug#906183: Dependency change and upgrade

2018-09-24 Thread Devarajulu, Mohanasundaram
Hello All, One of the dev package, if installed alone, leads to a dangling symlink as the package that installs the files is not depended upon (not installed). After lots of discussions we found that it is better for the dev package to depend on the binary meta package. So the dependencies