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

Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com
Sun Sep 20 01:03:03 UTC 2015


* Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> [2015-09-19 00:19]:
> 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?

I think it would be best to close the bug.  I don't think there's any
good way to reproduce this issue now.

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Martin Michlmayr
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