2014-05-30 14:37 GMT+01:00 Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>: > * Ghislain Vaillant <[email protected]>, 2014-05-30, 09:44: > > Now say I want to rename the -foo suffix into -bar for both package >> python-foo and python-foo-dbg. The debian developer's reference suggests to >> Conflicts/Replaces/Provides the old name and change the name of the package >> to the new name in the corresponding d/control entries. I tried it and it >> worked well for python-foo to python-bar. However, dpkg does not handle the >> transition from python-foo-dbg to python-bar-dbg properly. You can find >> more information about the dpkg commands and modifications to d/control of >> the package in the original post linked above. >> > > The modifications you made look all right too me: > > Package: python-pyfftw-dbg > Architecture: any > Priority: extra > Section: debug > Depends: > ${misc:Depends}, > ${python:Depends}, > ${shlibs:Depends}, > python-pyfftw (= ${binary:Version}) > Recommends: > python-dbg, > python-numpy-dbg > Provides: python-fftw3-dbg > Conflicts: python-fftw3-dbg > Replaces: python-fftw3-dbg > > We probably need more information about this. You only wrote that "dpkg > fails to perform the upgrade". But what exactly did you do, and how did it > fail? > > -- > Jakub Wilk > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
Basically, if I install python-fftw3 and call `dpkg -i python-pyfftw.deb`, then dpkg figures out the replacement, uninstall python-fftw3 and configure and install python-pyfftw. If I install python-fftw3-dbg, and python-fftw3 automatically as a result the dependency, then `dpkg -i python-pyfftw.deb python-pyfftw-dbg.deb` does figure out the replacement of the -dbg package but fails on the main package. Then calling the same command a second time, dpkg works out the replacement of the main package. So essentially, I need to first call `dpkg -i` on the -dbg package and then call it a second time on the main package I would expect dpkg to be smart and figure out that both the -dbg and main package should be replaced at once, and though this was not happening because something is wrong in my d/control. Maybe this is beyond dpkg's job and apt or aptitude would handle that just fine. Thoughts ? Ghis
