Bug#733512: Error updating mate-polkit-common

[Sven Joachim]

Am 29.12.2013 um 17:19 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

> On 12/29/2013 05:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>    * What led up to the situation?
>> 
>>      Updating via apt-get
>> 
>>      
>>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>> 
>>      dpkg error
>
> That happens when trying to update the package when using the MATE
> Debian repository at the same time and is hard to avoid since
> the MATE repositories contain "mate-polkit" while Debian has split
> the package into "mate-polkit" and "mate-polkit-common". We could
> maybe add a "Breaks" here,

Breaks wouldn't help here, Replaces is what's needed.  Considering that
over 2000 people have the packages from the MATE repositories
installed[1], adding that might be a good idea.

> but mixing different repositories is problematic anyways.

Indeed, if a newer version gets uploaded to the MATE repositories people
tracking it will likely experience the same problem again.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mate-polkit