[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#762300: Bug#762300: libuv: Versioned provides not supported during upgrades

[Luca BRUNO]

Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> ha scritto:

> Your package (libuv0.10-dev) uses versioned provides.  Unfortunately,
> this feature is not supported by tools in stable.  Accordingly, it is
> not guaranteed to work during upgrades from Wheezy to Jessie.

As libuv has never been part of a stable release, I quickly concluded
that there wouldn't be any problems related to upgrades (as there
shouldn't exist an upgrade path!).

After some input by the release team, I just realized that in fact the
apt-get in stable is not capable of parsing versioned provides, so the
upgrade process would break as soon as receiving the new package list.

I will revert ASAP back to unversioned provide, I'd just like to see the
result from arm64 autobuilder (if it doesn't take too long).

Sorry for causing havoc, and thanks for catching it quickly before
migration.

Ciao, Luca

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