[Aptitude-devel] Bug#502285: aptitude: full-upgrade from etch wants to remove xserver-xorg-video-all

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hello Martin,

2008-10-15 10:22 Martin Michlmayr:
>Package: upgrade-reports
>Severity: important
>
>I upgraded my old laptop from etch to lenny.  I followed the
>instructions from d-d-a, i.e. I first upgraded dpkg, apt and aptitude
>with aptitude and then did an aptitude dist-upgrade.  The first
>dist-upgrade I did upgraded a bunch of packages, but I think there
>were also a lot of failures, so I did another dist-upgrade and that
>completed the upgrade.
>
>Except that xserver-xorg-video-ati got removed during the upgrade and
>X failed to start.
>
>So there are two issues:
> 1) the first dist-upgrade failing
> 2) xserver-xorg-video-ati being removed.
>
>The full log is attached.  I don't have time to dig through it.

I am reviewing old bug reports from aptitude, and I am not sure about
what to do with this.  I think that some of these problems might still
happen, but the aptitude resolver implementation changed a lot since
then, specially in 2009-2010, and we don't even have the input from
Daniel Burrows in this bug report to try to get some insight about what
happened here.

Do you still use aptitude to ugprade systems from old stable to new
stable versions, and did you see this happening again in later versions,
esp. with the xserver-xorg-video* packages?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>