[Cupt-devel] Bug#754480: Bug#754480: cupt: Needlessly tries to upgrade a package to experimental version instead of sid version

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

Hi James,

I now got to the logs.

2014-07-11 10:24, James McCoy:
> Apt currently has packages both in sid (1.0.6) and experimental
> (1.1~exp1).  While running "cupt safe-upgrade", I would expect cupt to
> suggest to upgrade the apt related packages from 1.0.5 -> 1.0.6, but it
> is instead deciding to pull libapt-inst1.5 from experimental which then
> also pulls in libapt-pkg4.13 from experimental.  The rest of the binary
> packages from the apt source package are, as expected, only trying to be
> upgraded to the latest sid version.

Yes, I confirm, cupt pulled the experimental version of those packages
without a good reason, due sort-of-known limitation in the current
algorithms. I have some idea prototypes how to improve it in cases like
this, let's see if I get them implemented for 2.9 or 2.10.


Again, many thanks for filing the bugs, they do help improving Cupt.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer