Bug#667526: hdf5: apt does not find an upgrade path from squeeze

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-03-17 22:54, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> On 17/03/2013 21:12, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>>> Is there any reason not to apply Andreas' patch to fix this now?
>> Yes, see message #49:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667526#49
>>
>> I can still apply it if the release team thinks that it is better than
>> the current state.
> 
> Looks like a no from jcristau:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=62;bug=667526

I wouldn't take this as a "no", but as "we won't wait forever for
someone to fix this in wheezy, we can release with some upgrade paths
being broken".

Did anyone try the upgrades that fail with my patch applied how they
behave without the patch, i.e. in the current packages?

Even if we can't reach a perfect solution (I don't think it is even
possible at all with the current set of Provides), we should try to
improve the situation a bit.


Andreas