[DRE-maint] Bug#768850: ruby-activemodel, ruby-activesupport: needs Breaks for the packages it Replaces

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2014-11-11 13:55, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> The Breaks: relationships were there originally, but removing them was
> how I achieved a successfull upgrade from wheezy in the first place,
> after some hours of trial and error. aptitude would figure the upgrade
> out just fine, but apt-get wouldn't.

Maybe we need to add some more Breaks elsewhere to push apt into the
right direction ...

> Looking back, what I didn't do was upgrading apt first, then upgrading
> the rest of the system. Maybe that would help.

upgrades must work out successfully with the apt-get from wheezy.
Even if you Breaks: apt (<< jessie), apt will be upgraded first, but the
apt process running the dist-upgrade is still the old one from wheezy

If you can put packages (with a version > jessie) with the Breaks added
back somewhere (and add a Packages file, too) I could take a look at
what's happening there. Please describe your failing upgrade scenario
(wheezy + these packages: foo, bar, baz, ...  with/without recommends).


Andreas