Bug#706110: libgnome{, vfs}2-common: fails to upgrade from squeeze: prerm failure: gconf-schemas: not found

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 25 avril 2013 à 19:47 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 15:05:47 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> > All packages shipping gconf schemas have a Depends on gconf2. It is
> > generated via dh_gconf which adds "gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2)" to misc:Depends.
> > 
> > This version is already satisfied by gconf2 from squeeze. We could bump
> > that and binNMU the rdeps. But then we'd have some arch:all rdeps (which
> > would need sourceful uploads) and I'm actually not sure if a more
> > tightened Depends actually ensures that the new gconf2 is unpacked
> > before its rdeps. Does anyone know?
> > 
> No way are we touching heaps of packages at this point.  Either there's
> an isolated fix in one package, or this issue gets a wheezy-ignore.

I think we only need to fix the packages:
* that still have a dh_gconf prerm snippet in squeeze
* AND that don’t have a prerm anymore in wheezy (or that haven’t been
uploaded since squeeze).

That might not represent too many packages.

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