[Piuparts-devel] missing breaks+replaces bugs filed

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Montag, 26. November 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> on the weekend I finally took the time to file most of the file
> overwrite errors between distributions - the candidates can be
> discovered with Ralf's potential-cross-conflicts.py script and then I
> use piuparts to actually test the partial upgrades.
> Filing such a bug takes quite some time - at least because I wan't to
> understand why it's happening only between distributions, not within a
> distribution - that means finding the package version that moved the
> files around and suggesting the
>   Breaks+Replaces: $PKG (<< $VER)
> that should be added to fix this issue. Usually the B/R were missing, in
> a few cases they were targeting a misspelled package or version.
> Feedback rate is nice: more than 50% are already -done.

nice work! are you aware of http://coinst.irill.org/ ?


cheers,
	Holger