On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:59:18PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:40:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > The components that have so far been upgraded were upgraded entirely > > automatically. The dependencies within the GNOME 2 packages are simply > > not strict enough to prevent (say) gnome-panel being installed into > > testing with an older gnome-control-center > > Would this not constitute a bug?
Possibly. I'm not entirely sure. It's a bit late now anyway, so I'd rather worry about how to get the rest of GNOME 2 into testing ... http://lists.debian.org/debian-release-0306/msg00008.html > > (and it's possible that they can't be, which is why releases aren't > > automatic either ...). > > I find it hard to believe that the dependancies for the Gnome packages > couldn't have been set to stop this from happening. It's difficult to express "package A doesn't need package B, but will break package B less than such-and-such-a-version" in a way that the testing scripts will notice. Testing generally makes sure that both A and B are installable, but if there isn't a dependency relationship between them but only a conflict it won't check that they're simultaneously installable. I suppose that all the packages gnome-core depends on could have had a dependency back onto gnome-core, which would probably have done the trick. It's overkill and would impede people trying to use just bits of GNOME, though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]