Phatch package for karmic in the PPA has upgrade conflicts with the package in karmic itself

[Jan Claeys]

The Phatch package for karmic in the PPA has upgrade conflicts with the package in karmic itself, because in Karmic the application is split up into 4 packages. This happens both for older PPA versions --> Karmic version & Karmic version --> newer PPA versions.

It might be useful to use the packaging as used in Karmic instead of the current PPA packaging style?

[Stani (stani)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. I will investigate it.

[Stani (stani)]

For now I disabled Karmic in my PPA, as we are pushing our updates immediately through the official Karmic channel.

[Stani (stani)]

After some thoughts, I chose consciously to not do the same packaging in the PPA as I do for the debian/Ubuntu repositories. There are three reasons:
- one deb file is more easy to download/install to try out the latest features
- in ppa all plugins (including blender and inkscape) are enabled by default, so dependencies are configured differently in the packaging
- the packaging in karmic will break compatibility with previous ubuntu versions (such as hardy and so on ...)

I'm now doing research how to package into one file without conflicts.

[Stani (stani)]

From now on the packages in the PPA are properly configured. I've updated the PPA description:

After adding the PPA and its key, you need to explicitly install phatch (dist-upgrade won't work):
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install phatch