On 2024-01-21 Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote: > On 21.01.24 15:34, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > However according to our release notes we only support upgrading from > > release x to x+1, skipping releases is not allowed.
> I'm not talking about skipping releases but about partial upgrades. eah, but it still answers your question. ... > Thus … > > foo/testing requires bar >=1.1 to work but just states "Depends: bar >=1", > and bar/stable is 1.0.42 > assume that Stable has bar/stable==1.0.42 and foo/stable==2.1, while Testing > has foo/stable==2.2. $USER adds Testing (or possibly stable/backports) to > their apt.sources, updates foo, observes breakage, and now needs to dig > through dependencies to figure out what went wrong. ... If testing's foo 2.2 required bar >> 1.0.42 it would need to have a respective *versioned* dependency. > Yes I know that this cannot happen when people simply dist-upgrade, [...] I strongly disagree. A dist-upgrade is not atomic. foo and bar will/can be upgraded at separated dpkg runs by apt. If the dependencies are not strong enough we would see breakage. cu Andreas
