Hi,
I'm going through the RC bugs of update-manager and update-notifier.
You reported one bug last year that looks very hard to reproduce,
because it looks like a very unusual situation. Given this fact, I'm
wondering whether the severity should be downgraded to normal. I'm
also wondering how we could make up a new showcase for this bug.
Furthermore I'm not sur what you mean here:
Depite of this, update-manager happily proposed me to install
"bochbios, vgabios,
proll and openhackware" which are new dependencies of qemu and
which aren't needed
if you don't upgrade qemu (which is not really doable anyway). Of
course those
packages are currently NOT installed.
Let's review the versions available at that time:
$ LANG=C apt-cache policy qemu
qemu:
Installed: 0.9.0-1~db1
Candidate: 0.9.0-2
Version table:
0.9.0-2 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages
*** 0.9.0-1~db1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.8.2-4etch1 0
990 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
990 http://ftp.fr.debian.org etch-proposed-updates/main
Packages
0.8.2-4 0
990 http://ftp.fr.debian.org etch/main Packages
I checked here:
http://packages.debian.org/etch/qemu
and indeed the etch version 0.8.2-4etch1 did already depend on the 4
packages you mention. From the changelog, these dependencies do not
seem to have been added between 0.8.2-4 and 0.8.2-4etch1.
Are you absolutely sure your custom version 0.9.0-1~db1 did not have
these dependencies as well?
In your last e-mail you state:
To reproduce it, you need to run etch, mark etch as preferred
distribution, add unstable to sources.list and pin qemu to mark the
sid
version as preferred (pin-priority > 990).
I believe that is not true. You need to pin qemu to a version above
the current stable, below sid, and which does not have the same
dependencies as in sid. Do you agree? (Still trying to make a new
showcase for the bug).
Regards, Thibaut.
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