On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:42:30PM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > On 3/3/13 4:54 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 11:36:45AM +0100, Nicolas Delvaux wrote: > >>On Fri, 2013-03-02 at 09:32 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > >>>I'm surprised, because when I hunt around for people talking about > >>>their experiences running raring I've generally found them favourably > >>>contrasting its stability with that of prior development releases. > >>>Indeed I hear that one group (the French loco, was it?) started > >>>referring to it as "boring", which IMO is an excellent result. :-)
> >>For example, in the last few hours, French testers have complained about > >>packages such as Skype or Wine that were removed by a dist-upgrade. > >I would be happy to debug such things given the output of 'apt-get -o > >Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade'. (The last such example I > >saw turned out to be due to raring-proposed being erroneously enabled, > >and disabling it fixed the problem.) > Likely one of: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/winetricks/+bug/1123710 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gettext/+bug/954029 > In this case I suspect I need to SRU the fix to 12.10 because apt > will in some cases look at the recommends of the currently installed > package rather than the to-be-upgraded-to package when doing > resolution. apt should never do that, and that would be a major bug that we should fix. Do you have a bug reference for this behavior in apt (preferably with a reproducer case)? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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