Bug#563483: closed by Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at videolan.org> (Bug#563483: fixed in vlc 1.0.4-2)

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fr, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:39:31 (CET), James Vega wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:51:13AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> Source: vlc
>> Source-Version: 1.0.4-2
>> [snip]
>>    * Move back hotkeys to vlc-nox (Closes: #563477)
>>    * Fix Replaces/Conflicts version so that upgrade work (Closes:
>>      #563476, #563483)
>
> See #560896 for why
>
>   Package: vlc
>   Version: 1.0.4-2
>   Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.0.4-2)
>   Conflicts: vlc-nox (<< 1.0.4-2)
>
>   Package: vlc-nox
>   Version: 1.0.4-2
>   Conflicts: vlc (<< 1.0.4-2)
>
> is broken.

That bugreport has very long discussion threads, and after skimming
them, I didn't understand how that bug relates to this situation.

Here in vlc, both conflicts are versioned. Both apt and aptitude should
be able to find the obvious solution: pick the latest version of both
packages. How can this cause problems?

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4