Bug#667599: dolfin-dev: fails to upgrade from squeeze - apt does not find an upgrade path

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Apr  5, 2012 at 17:38:22 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:

> On  0, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> >
> >during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade
> >from 'squeeze'. It installed fine in 'squeeze', then the upgrade to
> >'wheezy' fails.
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >Ouch! apt shouldn't remove the package that is to be tested (and can
> >be installed in clean wheezy without problems).
> >
> 
> Exactly, *APT* should not do that... why is this reported against
> dolfin?  I tried to reproduce this bug with aptitude instead of apt,
> and it seems that aptitude is a bit smarter than apt as it doesn't
> remove dolfin-dev but offers to upgrade it to the newer version.
> 
> IMO, this bug should be reassigned to APT. It also happens with
> mingw-ocaml (see #662746). I'm CC'ing APT maintainers to have their
> input on this kind of issues.
> 
NAK.  Packages in wheezy need to upgrade cleanly within the constraints
of squeeze's apt.

Cheers,
Julien
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