[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#911045: xenstore-utils: removal of xenstore-utils makes files disappear from xen-utils-common
Ian Jackson
ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Oct 16 00:13:13 BST 2018
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: xenstore-utils: removal of xenstore-utils makes files disappear from xen-utils-common"):
> > The installation sequence to reproduce this problem is
> >
> > apt-get install xen-utils-common/stretch
> > # (1)
> > apt-get install xenstore-utils/sid
> > apt-get remove xenstore-utils
> > # (2)
>
> But this is not possible because xen-utils-common Depends on
> xenstore-utils (even in stretch). You could in theory upgrade only
> xenstore-utils and then downgrade it again, to make the files
> disappear, but I don't think that is supported. And in practice
> no-one would do that.
>
> So I don't think this is a bug we care about.
Indeed I looked at the log and it does show a downgrade, not a
removal, of xenstore-utils.
Ian.
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