Bug#288265: gnome-stones: Dependency clash with gnome-games-data

[Chris Higgins]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:07:10 +0100
Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:

> You're trying to install a woody package over a sid system. While
> upgrading from a distribution to another is supported, downgrading is
> not always. If you want to play gnome-stones, please install
> gnome-games.

It is installed.

luggage:/home/chris# dpkg -l gnome-games
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  gnome-games    2.8.1-3        games for the GNOME desktop

The reason I submitted the bugs is because the dependency error causes
dpkg to fail on install.

I would have expected a dependency rule that required the new packages
to be removed if I want to install the old packages - it happens with some
other packages out there.

Generating an error message and failing provides no help to the luckless end user.
I didn't see anything in the output that would hint that I was trying to install old
versions ( and in fairness I shouldn't have to - an error like the one I got shows that
we are missing something in the package definitions )

gnome-stones should suggest the removal of gnome-games-data rather than
die horribly.

If there is a policy statement somewhere that says that this behaviour is the 
expected behaviour then can you 
a/ Send me in it's direction
b/ Close the bug report ( and the matching one for gnome-gnobots2 )

Have a very happy new year.

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