On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:13:37AM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> - Don't disable PPAs during upgrades, but instead rewrite their apt
> lines for the release to be upgraded to. This is a bold solution which
> will presumably also fix similar upgrade failures, but it might also
> introduce new failures.
Disabling ppas on upgrade is quite deliberate, since we have no control over
what packages might be in them that conflict with the tested upgrade path.
This would definitely be trading a known bug for an unknown bug, we
shouldn't do this.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:13:37AM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> - Don't disable PPAs during upgrades, but instead rewrite their apt
> lines for the release to be upgraded to. This is a bold solution which
> will presumably also fix similar upgrade failures, but it might also
> introduce new failures.
Disabling ppas on upgrade is quite deliberate, since we have no control over
what packages might be in them that conflict with the tested upgrade path.
This would definitely be trading a known bug for an unknown bug, we
shouldn't do this.