Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

[Felipe Sateler]

On Dec 10, 2012 7:03 PM, "Jonas Smedegaard" <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>
> Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 17:57:18)
> > On 12/10/2012 11:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >
> > > Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 16:30:19)
> > >> the question becomes why the dist-upgrade is trying to remove
> > >> libjack0.
> >
> > > Ohhh: Most likely cause is that libjack-jackd2-dev provides
> > > libjack-dev!
> > >
> > > Why does it do that - it seems plain wrong to me!
> >
> > In combination with what Felipe pointed out about ia32-libs and
> > jackd1, that looks like a plausible reason to me. (The ia32-libs
> > factor also probably means that part of the culprit is the holds I
> > have in place on a few other packages, which are also interfering with
> > parts of the ia32-libs dummy-package transition. As such, this is at
> > least partly my own fault, and may not manifest for everyone.)
>
> I don't want to speculate further: Your system contains 32bit libs and
> held back packages, and (discussed below) you use different tools than
> those recommended in release notes for your package handling.

In case there is confusion, the above is a supported scenario. Of
course,nobody is forced to work on anything they don't want to.

>
> If you (or someone else) can reproduce this issue from a debootstrap of
> purely Debian Squeeze packages, then upgraded using an aptitude command,
> I will gain iterest in this again.

How could this be done? I suspect piuparts could help, but I'm not
particularly knowledgeable about it.

>
> You are not a minority: Many have been mislead.
>
> Feel free to use an inferior tool.  But note that aptitude is the tool
> recommended for upgrading from one release to the next (nowadays, if it
> has ever been recommended to use apt-get).

For wheezy the recommended tool is apt-get, see
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/
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