Package: gcc-6-base Version: 6.3.0-18 Severity: important Hi Doko,
would it be possible to use gcc-6-base as the bigger hammer to smoothen the openjdk 7 -> 8 upgrade from jessie to stretch? The Breaks: tzdata-java added in openjdk-8-jre-headless (#857992) improved the situation a lot, but I still see some corner cases where switching to openjdk-8 is not considered by apt, and instead some jessie packages are kept installed (the openjdk-7 stack, and especially tzdata is kept at the jessie version (that still has tzdata-java)). A versioned Breaks against some openjdk-7 package would not work due to new upstream releases being uploaded to (old)stable frequently. An unversioned Breaks against some openjdk-7 package would render the packages from experimental uninstallable in sid. gcc-6-base should have a high enough score in apt to stop any attempts to keep tzdata-java or openjdk-7 (from jessie) installed. I'll now build a gcc-6 with that Breaks added ... Andreas