Bug#766543: fails upgrading real to virtual packages (missing --auto-deconfigure)

2014-11-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
NAK Please use the --testdebs-repo approach for complex¹ upgrade scenarios. The 'pass multiple .deb files' and 'pass .changes' approaches are not able to do realistic updates (or even installation). So let's not add another hack to a broken feature (using dpkg to manually install packages) ¹

Bug#766543: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#766543: fails upgrading real to virtual packages (missing --auto-deconfigure)

2014-11-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 21. November 2014, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Please use the --testdebs-repo approach for complex¹ upgrade scenarios. The 'pass multiple .deb files' and 'pass .changes' approaches are not able to do realistic updates (or even installation). So let's not add another hack to a broken

Bug#766543: fails upgrading real to virtual packages (missing --auto-deconfigure)

2014-11-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-11-21 16:03, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 21. November 2014, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Please use the --testdebs-repo approach for complex¹ upgrade scenarios. The 'pass multiple .deb files' and 'pass .changes' approaches are not able to do realistic updates (or even installation). So

Bug#766543: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#766543: fails upgrading real to virtual packages (missing --auto-deconfigure)

2014-11-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 21. November 2014, Andreas Beckmann wrote: b), and offer an easy way to do this: [...] PS: I sometimes use something based on this script, but it is in no way automatic more+better documentation is the answer, I guess. And your script should probably be included in either the

Bug#766543: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#766543: fails upgrading real to virtual packages (missing --auto-deconfigure)

2014-11-21 Thread Holger Levsen
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Bug#761449: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#766543: fails upgrading real to virtual packages (missing --auto-deconfigure)

2014-10-24 Thread Holger Levsen
control: severity -1 normal Hi Helmut, thanks for your bug report with patch, much appreciated! (That said, a patch in git format would be preferred even more! (And reading the NMU bits in it feels a bit strange.. with non-NMU intend ;) as an NMU it would have been totally fine...)) On

Bug#766543: fails upgrading real to virtual packages (missing --auto-deconfigure)

2014-10-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: piuparts Version: 0.59 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap When testing the fix for #761449 with piuparts, the result is a failure. It fails upgrading the packages, because piuparts does not allow dpkg to deconfigure packages. Since one package