Bug#758234: another nasty fallout of this requirement

2017-06-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:54:46 +0100 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 06:33 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > And to actually fix the issues, instead of merely dropping the > > mention and > > thus making the dependencies last forever because of inertia, I urge > >

Bug#758234: another nasty fallout of this requirement

2016-12-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 06:33 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > And to actually fix the issues, instead of merely dropping the > mention and > thus making the dependencies last forever because of inertia, I urge > you to > go all the way from "priority of rdepends MUST be raised" all the way > to >

Bug#758234: another nasty fallout of this requirement

2016-12-02 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! Here's a yet another case this obsolete requirement causes problems: #845464 which is a severity:critical issue (somehow filed as "only" serious) -- an unrelated outdated package causes debootstrap to fail. This is nastier than the usual cases, such as leaving a bazillion of gcc-$ANCIENT-base