[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#780439: Bug#780439: tcl8.6: upgrade issues switching from tcl8.4/wheezy to tcl/jessie

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Andreas,

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> analyzing some piuparts logs in depth showed an issue with fsl being
> hold at the wheezy version rather than being upgraded.
>
> This is caused by the switch from tcl8.4 to tcl which requires removal
> of the old tcl8.4 package. This seems to work well in most upgrade
> paths, but unfortunately in this case the scoring resulted in a tie,
> and that is resolved in favor of the already installed package.
> There may be more upgrade paths involving other packages hitting this
> issue ...
>
> Adding some Breaks to libtcl8.6 (which has a slightly higher score than
> tcl due to a higher number of rdepends) will help apt to resolve this
> upgrade path in favor of the new tcl package.
> The versions I've taken from the Breaks found in the tcl and tk
> packages.

Thank you for the analysis and for the patch. I'll upload the fixed packages
shortly.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan