[Pkg-directfb-devel] Bug#584617: Installation causes massive dependency problems for many other packages

[Sven Joachim]

severity 584617 normal
thanks

On 2010-06-05 09:26 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2010-06-05 09:00 +0200, Fathi Boudra wrote:
>> We have done a directfb transition.
>> Most of the packages should have been rebuilt against latest directfb
>> (and depends on libdirectfb-1.2.9).
>>
>> Do you have some libxine2* packages, still depending on libdirectfb-1.2-0 ?
>
> I don't, but Juhapekka is running a mixed stable/testing system where
> your Conflicts: libdirectfb-1.2-0 makes partial upgrades impossible.

I just noticed that this does not affect upgrades from Lenny, since it
has libdirectfb-1.0-0 rather than libdirectfb-1.2-0.  Juhapekka, it's
probably time for you to do an "aptitude full-upgrade" and move on to
libdirectfb-1.2-9.

> This is not how library transitions are supposed to be handled, please
> make sure that the next libdirectfb-x.y.z packages do not share files
> with libdirectfb-1.2-9.

Sven