Bug#749820: gnuplot: Uninstallable

[Axel Beckert]

Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.6.5-2
Severity: serious

Dear Maintainer,

since the 4.6.5-2 upload gnuplot is uninstallable at least on amd64:

gnuplot depends on gnuplot-nox and ( gnuplot-x11 or gnuplot-qt )

Both, gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt conflict with gnuplot-nox.

To fix #741073 properly you should only have changed the order of the
alternative dependencies with gnuplot-nox as last alternative. That
perfectly suffices to change the default.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.15-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnuplot depends on:
ii  gnuplot-nox  4.6.5-1

gnuplot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnuplot suggests:
pn  feedgnuplot  none
pn  gnuplot-doc  none
pn  libgnuplot-iostream-dev  none
pn  python-gnuplot   none

-- no debconf information


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Bug#749820: gnuplot: Uninstallable

[Mike Miller]

(Not maintainer, just interested user.)

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 01:00:06 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
 since the 4.6.5-2 upload gnuplot is uninstallable at least on amd64:
 
 gnuplot depends on gnuplot-nox and ( gnuplot-x11 or gnuplot-qt )
 
 Both, gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt conflict with gnuplot-nox.

It is not uninstallable for me at least. Both gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt
provide gnuplot-nox, so either one will satisfy both of the depends.

The change I see with 4.6.5-2 is gnuplot and gnuplot-nox can no longer
be installed together. Installing gnuplot-nox now removes gnuplot, and
installing gnuplot requires either gnuplot-x11 or gnuplot-qt and
uninstalls gnuplot-nox.

Whether or not that's desired I can't say, but that's the effect I see
here at least.

-- 
mike


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