Bug#556392: jackeq does not start
Felipe Sateler
fsateler at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 16:31:25 UTC 2009
Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> none of these packages have been removed from unstable. I therefore
>>> conclude that there are no packages for which we should add this breaks.
>> Well, the idea of the Breaks directive is to avoid having a pre-lenny
>> program with a post-lenny jack. So I think adding Breaks to all these <=
>> lenny-version would do it (although maybe too restrictive).
>
> Debian does not support skipping releases during an upgrade. Generally,
> we should avoid these dependencies as they make the dependency graph
> unnecessary complicatated in order to make apt its job easier.
But at least jackeq in lenny is pre-lenny (it has the same version as in
etch). This is the problem I'm trying to avoid: programs that have not
been updated between etch and squeeze. Remember that the problem was
caused by a lenny jackeq with a squeeze jack.
--
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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