[Pkg-electronics-devel] Remaining issues for geda-gaf

[أحمد المحمودي]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:18:28PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 16:09 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> > I am trying to upgrade geda from 1.4 to 1.6 without having to do a 
> > dist-upgrade.
> 
> Any idea what causes that yet?

Not sure really.

> I've got a feeling that it might be due to the new symbols package
> conflicting against the old libgeda version.

I removed libgeda33 from geda-symbols Conflicts: field, the reason is 
that the libgeda2? in the Conflicts were added because libgeda2? 
packages (gEDA < 1.4) used to provide a couple of conf files that were 
moved to geda-symbols in gEDA 1.4, hence a Conflict should have been 
added. Yet this is not the case with libgeda33 which actually came with 
gEDA 1.4.

The result of removing libgeda33 from Conflicts of geda-symbols is that if I run: apt-get upgrade 

that would additionally upgrade geda-symbols, yet still the rest of 
binary packages won't be upgraded except with a dist-upgrade !

> Is there any way we can lessen the requirement on symbols package
> versions, such that the new geda-symbols package is installed last?
> (After the old libgeda is automatically removed?)
> 
> The new gEDA packages will work with the old symbols.. but not the other
> way around. Obviously we want the users to have the new symbols
> eventually, but I'm guessing they are being required in too early in the
> install progress.

Dunno really, Hamish can you help here ?

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