Comment 3 for bug 901741
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote Re: [Bug 901741] Re: perl-modules lucid->precise upgrade failure: debsums needs to restrict itself to Essential dependencies | #3 |
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:49:54AM -0000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> For this to work reliably in a cross-version lucid->precise upgrade,
> however, won't you need to push a new libwmf0.2-7 package in lucid that
> fixes its prerm?
No, because dpkg will fall back to the new prerm (i.e. the one in the
package it's upgrading to). This is a very useful get-out clause. It
does require libwmf0.2-7 in precise to ship a no-op prerm rather than no
prerm at all, which is a little surprising, but otherwise it works.