[Bug 430197] Re: Disable partial upgrades during a development release
Michael Terry
michael.terry at canonical.com
Tue Mar 5 19:24:14 UTC 2013
I don't think so. That commit handles a very specific case. The new
package has to set all three of Provides, Conflicts, and Replaces.
Breaks isn't recognized, and I imagine that there are common churn
situations in a development release where Provides is not specified.
cjwatson, as the author of that patch, can you comment on the above?
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Title:
Disable partial upgrades during a development release
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
More and more people test devel release of Ubuntu. While we give
adequate warnings on the risks of running ubuntu+1 releases sometimes
it's not enough.
update-manager has a concept of a "partial upgrade" which seems to be
more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps give the user a more descriptive
set of options, something like:
a) Wait until later until the archive works itself out.
b) Install stuff, but don't remove anything
c) Do a partial upgrade (and perhaps a scary warning like apt does when you try to remove glibc. "Yes, I recognize that I could explode my machine, do it."
Or perhaps something like "Something bad has happened, go use apt-get"
or something that makes it clear that update-manager is confused.
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