hoary -> breezy upgrade problem
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
When doing a stock hoary install and then doing a apt-get dist-upgrade to breezy
this results in removing ubuntu-desktop:
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
The following packages will be REMOVED:
[..]
openoffice.
[..]
This is because the old "ubuntu-desktop" package depends on "readahead".
The new "ubuntu-desktop" package depends on "readahead-list". This package
"Conflicts/
Apt can't handle this situation, here is the output of the problemResolver:
[..]
Investigating readahead-list
Package readahead-list has broken dep on readahead
Considering readahead 0 as a solution to readahead-list 0
Holding Back readahead-list rather than change readahead
Package ubuntu-desktop has broken dep on readahead-list
Considering readahead-list 0 as a solution to ubuntu-desktop 0
Removing ubuntu-desktop rather than change readahead-list
[..]
Aptitude deals with the situation more gracefully by removing "readahead",
installing "readahead-list" and upgrading "ubuntu-desktop".
If we want to support dist-upgrading with apt, we need to do a workaround for
this so that the hoary apt can do the dist-upgrade.
And here is the solution:
<mdz> mvo: we could revert the rename
<mvo> mdz: ok, that sounds good to me. shall I do that now or after preview?
<mdz> mvo: after