reopen 645382
severity 645382 wishlist
stop

2011/10/24 Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org>:
>> These days we're having gnome3 packages uploaded to 'unstable'. In this
>> case u-a fails to upgrade all available packages even if no conflict
>> will appear on a manual 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
>>
>> I've attached a log for a normal + '--debug' execution.
>
> From reading the logs it appears like it will have to remove some
> packages in order to continue. The current design in u-a is to avoid
> this and to leave the package behind if it happens (as normal
> (security) updates never lead to the removal of other packages). If
> its a wanted feature I can add a knob to turn that check of.

I think this is the desired behaviour in most cases, but not always. I
think I've seen security upgrades in 'stable' (i.e. openjdk-6) that
were put on hold because of this. Thus, I've reopened the bug and
changed it to a wishlist.

Thanks



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