Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> writes: > Since no upgrade ordering is not guaranteed by the package manager, I'm > looking for all possibly problematic (partial) upgrade paths from wheezy > to jessie,
I'm afraid I don't understand. You're talking about upgrades, but you couldn't possibly have python-pywbem and sblim-wbemcli installed together, unless python-pywbem was at 0.8.0~dev650-1, its latest version. And then there's no problem with any version of sblim-wbemcli. No version of sblim-wbemcli is included in wheezy, though. > that includes files being moved from one package to another (that may > not have existed in wheezy.) And I try to really excercise all paths > not forbidden by Breaks/Conflicts :-) Maybe you install python-pywbem in wheezy, then switch sources to jessie and install sblim-wbemcli without dist-upgrading first? That's the only scenario I can think of which exhibits this problem. > On 2014-11-06 11:00, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Of course the above problem could be declared in the metadata of >> sblim-wbemcli, though 7.6 does not seem to apply here. 7.4 (Conflicts) >> seems more appropriate to me, if something really is needed. I >> initially thought it was not, but you surely know better, please advise >> me. > > If a package was in wheezy and is completely gone in jessie, unversioned > Replaces+Conflicts in the successor are OK. No, this is not the case, both packages are in jessie, but python-pywbem has its former /usr/bin/wbemcli binary renamed to avoid conflict with sblim-wbemcli. Replaces does not play either, the packages have different (tough in part similar) purposes, as well as the clashing binaries. > If the package still exists (even as an empty transitional package), > use versioned Breaks+Replaces (<< > the-first-version-no-longer-shipping-the-files~) The trailing ~ is > recommended for backports-compatibility. Breaks are much easier to > handle for the package manager than Conflicts. But Breaks does not forbid unpacking both packages together, which is really impossible, as both contain the same file. All this suggests Conflicts: python-pywbem (<< 0.8.0~dev650-1~) should be added to sblim-wbemcli to avoid this error on any setup. Do you agree? -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
