Bug#667599: dolfin-dev: fails to upgrade from squeeze - apt does not find an upgrade path

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: dolfin-dev
Version: 1.0.0-4
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'squeeze'.
It installed fine in 'squeeze', then the upgrade to 'wheezy' fails.

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

5m43.3s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/piupartss/tmp7TWhoJ', 'apt-get', '-yf', 'dist-upgrade']
12m24.2s DUMP: 
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    dolfin-dev libboost-filesystem1.42-dev libboost-program-options1.42-dev
    libboost-serialization1.42-dev libboost-system1.42-dev libboost1.42-dev
    libdolfin0 libdolfin0-dev libnetcdf6 python-netcdf python-viper python-vtk

Ouch! apt shouldn't remove the package that is to be tested (and can be
installed in clean wheezy without problems).

The test performed is:
* setup a minimal squeeze chroot (without Recommends)
* install dolfin-dev
* dist-upgrade to wheezy


cheers,

Andreas
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