Ticket #586 (new defect) — at Version 1

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

zephyr 2 to zephyr 3 distro upgrade makes you lose

Reported by: geofft Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy)
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
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Description (last modified by broder) (diff)

If you do a do-release-upgrade from a libzephyr3 release to a libzephyr4 one, you lose.

Because debathena-zephyr-config et al. depend on libzephyr4-krb5 | libzephyr3-krb, the libzephyr3-krb you already had installed satisfies that dependency, meaning that nothing pulls in libzephyr4-krb5. When do-release-upgrade cleans up at the end of the upgrade, it doesn't remove libzephyr3-krb because it's still depended on by zephyr-config.

Meanwhile, because things like pidgin depend on some form of libzephyr4, you end up with both libzephyr3-krb and libzephyr4 (no -krb5), and you're sad.

The only fix I've been able to come up with is to create a debathena-libzephyr, which depends on libzephyr4-krb5 | libzephyr3-krb on releases that still have zephyr 2, and just libzephyr4-krb5 on releases that only have zephyr 3. And then depend on that everywhere we currently have a libzephyr4-krb5 | libzephyr3-krb dependency.

(This allows us to accommodate the eventuality where zephyr 3 gets backported to Hardy + Jaunty)

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comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by broder

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