Re: [HTCondor-users] Debian packages versioning: identical for squeeze and wheezy

[Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The version string contains the build number. So, they are the same. 
I'll have to do a little research to see how to address this problem. 
I'll post a follow-up later.

...Tim

On 01/06/2014 03:47 AM, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:44:26AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether this is intended this way, but apparently
> > Debian Squeeze and Wheezy packages carry the same version (while
> > having different dependencies).
> >
> > The way APT works does not depend on filenames (which are clearly
> > distinguishable) but on version/build strings which are extracted
> > from the packages themselves (control in the debian subtree).
> >
> > Some people like me have to carry around certain legacy stuff,
> > and therefore have squeeze and wheezy lines in their sources.list.
> >
> > With the current 8.0.4 packages, one cannot properly predict which
> > package will be installed - and with a Squeeze installation, on
> > dist-upgrade to Wheezy, there's no safe way to replace the deb6.0
> > package with the deb7 one.
> >
> > Of course the solution would be to get rid of those squeeze lines
> > completely (not feasible now), including UWisc's repo directly
> > (which would force upgrades earlier than possibly desired -
> > currently, we're "buffering" new versions for a while before
> > releasing them to our pool) - anything else?
> This situation hasn't changed with the 8.1.3 packages - "dpkg -I"
> shows identical strings for "Version":
>   Version: 8.1.3-214200
> This means that if I install the squeeze (deb_6.0) package on a
> Squeeze system, and subsequently dist-upgrade, the deb_7 package
> will not automatically replace the - now obsolete, and very probably
> malfunctioning - squeeze one. Which IMHO is a violation of Debian
> Policy (a bug of severity "serious" or even "grave"). Can we expect
> this to be changed for the upcoming versions? I believe there are
> quite some users who are still with Squeeze at this time, but have
> to migrate to Wheezy before security support runs out in May - and
> will face this problem sooner or later.
>
> - S
>
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