Bug#327241: fam: May not be upgraded due to funky circular provides

2005-09-15 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:03:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Can be done, but I didn't offer that option because I don't really > like it. :-) At that point, I don't really see any reason to change > the package name from what it was in sarge. (There never was a good > reason, but it was done

Bug#327241: fam: May not be upgraded due to funky circular provides

2005-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:41:21PM -0700, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:03:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Can be done, but I didn't offer that option because I don't really > > like it. :-) At that point, I don't really see any reason to change > > the package name from w

Bug#327241: fam: May not be upgraded due to funky circular provides

2005-09-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Package: fam Version: 2.7.0-8 Severity: serious The current libfam0 provides the previous libfam0c102, presumably because libfam is a C++ lib but only exports a C interface, so the transition for GCC 4 was unnecessary. However, the libfam0c102 in sarge provides libfam0. This means that that pack

Bug#327241: fam: May not be upgraded due to funky circular provides

2005-09-08 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:06:36AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > The current libfam0 provides the previous libfam0c102, presumably > because libfam is a C++ lib but only exports a C interface, so the > transition for GCC 4 was unnecessary. Yes. > However, the libfam0c102 in sarge provides libfam0.

Bug#327241: fam: May not be upgraded due to funky circular provides

2005-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:58:07PM -0700, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:06:36AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > The current libfam0 provides the previous libfam0c102, presumably > > because libfam is a C++ lib but only exports a C interface, so the > > transition for GCC 4 was un

Bug#327241: fam: May not be upgraded due to funky circular provides

2005-09-09 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:42:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > This is an exceedingly odd situation. The only solution that seems > > > satisfactory to me is to go back to the sarge-style packaging, meaning > > > kill the libfam0 package and re-introduce libfam0c102. > > > The situation is

Bug#327241: fam: May not be upgraded due to funky circular provides

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:04:34PM -0700, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:42:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > This is an exceedingly odd situation. The only solution that seems > > > > satisfactory to me is to go back to the sarge-style packaging, meaning > > > > kill th