Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-06-01 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
David Kalnischkies wrote: 2010/5/31 Ludovic Brenta ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org: Option 1: upload a new package gnat that Breaks: all -dev packages that were present in Lenny but are no longer present in Squeeze. This however does not really help apt, or the user, discover the new replacement

Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-05-28 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Stephen Leake wrote: Currently, a package is upgraded only if its name does not change. Good point. Is the hack then to introduce a new libnameold-ali-dev package which is empty but depends on libnamenew-ali-dev? Lots of empty packages, just to get the upgrade to work, but if we have a

Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-05-26 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Ludovic Brenta wrote: Over the last two weeks I have been testing upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Sid and Squeeze in a chroot. The picture is not as pretty as it should be. In a nutshell, when you change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny to squeeze (unstable, actually) and do aptitude