Bug#716880: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Arno, On Sun, Jul 13, 2014, at 13:17, Arno Töll wrote: > Hello, > > we've got a problem with Apache that causes problems during upgrades > (e.g. #716880, #752922, #711925). In short, the issue is that Apache 2.4 > changed ABIs, so that we need to ensure that dpkg properly removes > packages li

Bug#716880: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:17:24 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > What would you do in our situation? Side note 2: We kinda expected this > situation and added a trapdoor in Wheezy [1], but it turned out, that > even that is not good enough to prevent havoc with --purge-unused. It's not really ideal either,

Bug#716880: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Arno, On Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014, Arno Töll wrote: > * Ignore the problem, and refer to the manpage of aptitude without > proper fix etc. which clearly says "THIS OPTION CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS! DO > NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING". seems right to me, given the alternatives you descr

Bug#716880: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
Hello, we've got a problem with Apache that causes problems during upgrades (e.g. #716880, #752922, #711925). In short, the issue is that Apache 2.4 changed ABIs, so that we need to ensure that dpkg properly removes packages linking against the obsolete ABIs at upgrade time. This is the first time