[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#681376: Bug#681376: Xen hypervisor package not upgraded on dist-upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

[Ian Campbell]

tags 681376 +patch
thanks

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 12:37 -0600, Ian Campbell wrote:
> One possible solution would be to turn those virtual packages into real
> ones, at which point I expect the versioning would cause the expected
> upgrade.

Perhaps inevitably this wasn't quite sufficient. The problem is that
even if xen-hypervisor-amd64 becomes a real package on upgrade the
dependency is already satisfied by xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 so apt
doesn't do the upgrade.

I can't really think of a solution for this in Wheezy. However what we
can, and I think should, do for Wheezy is to add an explicit real
package "xen-hypervisor-latest-ARCH". It will still require manual
action on upgrade to Wheezy but things should then Just Work for Wheezy
+1.

Also the xen-linux-system-* packages should include the latest package
as the preferred alternative.

Ian.
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