[Piuparts-devel] Bug#851517: piuparts uses apt --allow-downgrades even if it should not

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: tag -1 pending

On 2017-01-15 23:19, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 03:07:07PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> I tested LooseVersion with the version of apt in wheezy:

do we need LooseVersion?

at other places (not yet in piuparts.py) we use
apt_pkg.version_compare() and I'd like to be consistent

> $ dpkg-query -f "0.9.7.9+deb7u7\n" -W apt
> 0.9.7.9+deb7u7

you were querying the apt version in the host ...
(which is adequate to do for adequate)

Andreas Beckmann (1):
      p: query the apt version in the chroot

do not revert the disabling patch, yet, I want to do more tests since
this changes how installation failures of the dummy package look in the
logs and we may have to update some known problems ...
but I still have wheezy2jessie-* backlog from the last point release

Andreas