Bug#762932: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#762932: aptitude: in an upgrade with 'U', aptitude chose to downgrade a package

2015-09-21 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, 2015-09-20 20:20 Vincent Lefevre: I'd don't consider this "grave" at all, as it neither "makes the package in question unusable or mostly so", nor "causes data loss", nor "introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package". Well, then it should be

Bug#762932: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#762932: aptitude: in an upgrade with 'U', aptitude chose to downgrade a package

2015-09-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2015-09-21 12:43:08 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > The website also says: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/ > > unstable > > The unstable distribution is where active development of Debian > occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers and those > who

Bug#762932: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#762932: aptitude: in an upgrade with 'U', aptitude chose to downgrade a package

2015-09-21 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
(I am replying to clarify some points, but I am not going to continue arguing about this). 2015-09-21 13:40 GMT+01:00 Vincent Lefevre : > Hi, > > On 2015-09-21 12:43:08 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> The website also says: >> >>

Bug#762932: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#762932: aptitude: in an upgrade with 'U', aptitude chose to downgrade a package

2015-09-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-09-21 14:11:13 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2015-09-21 13:40 GMT+01:00 Vincent Lefevre : > > Basically, two things are said: > > > > 1. Some packages cannot be installed (for some period), which is OK > >for me, and this cannot be avoided. > >

Bug#762932: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#762932: aptitude: in an upgrade with 'U', aptitude chose to downgrade a package

2015-09-20 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 + moreinfo unreproducible Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Note that I use the following option: > > Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "removals"; > > so that packages don't get removed. Which IMHO clearly says "you may prefer downgrades

Bug#762932: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#762932: aptitude: in an upgrade with 'U', aptitude chose to downgrade a package

2015-09-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-09-20 16:27:39 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Note that I use the following option: > > > > Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "removals"; > > > > so that packages don't get removed. > > Which IMHO clearly says "you may prefer downgrades over removals".