[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#681376: Bug#681376: Bug#681376: Xen hypervisor package not upgraded on dist-upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

[Bastian Blank]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:39:01AM -0600, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 12:37 -0600, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > One possible solution would be to turn those virtual packages into real
> > ones, at which point I expect the versioning would cause the expected
> > upgrade.
> Perhaps inevitably this wasn't quite sufficient. The problem is that
> even if xen-hypervisor-amd64 becomes a real package on upgrade the
> dependency is already satisfied by xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 so apt
> doesn't do the upgrade.

This can be fixed by adding a version, like "(>> 0)"

> I can't really think of a solution for this in Wheezy. However what we
> can, and I think should, do for Wheezy is to add an explicit real
> package "xen-hypervisor-latest-ARCH". It will still require manual
> action on upgrade to Wheezy but things should then Just Work for Wheezy
> +1.

No hacks.

Bastian

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