[Freewx-maint] Bug#684150: python-wxgtk2.8 breaks upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:17:57PM +1200, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:35:13PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > https://patches.ubuntu.com/w/wxwidgets2.8/wxwidgets2.8_2.8.12.1-11ubuntu2.patch
> > 
> > +      - Add conflict on python-wxgtk2.8 (<< 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu1~) to
> > +        python-wxversion to guarantee upgrade ordering when moving from
> > +        pycentral to dh_python2.
> > 
> > -Conflicts: wxpython2.6-0, python-wxgtk2.6 (<< 2.6.3.2.2-2), python-wxgtk2.4 (<< 2.4.5.1.2)
> > +Conflicts: wxpython2.6-0, python-wxgtk2.6 (<< 2.6.3.2.2-2), python-wxgtk2.4 (<< 2.4.5.1.2), python-wxgtk2.8 (<< 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu1~)
> 
> I'm aware of this Ubuntu patch, but I couldn't get a clear explanation of
> what the issue it addressed was when I asked about it a few months ago.
> 
> I had suspected we might have a similar issues, but hadn't had a chance to
> test upgrades yet.  This report suggests there is an issue, and we could just
> add a conflicts even if we can't reproduce it, but I'm not sure what versions
> we should be conflicting with...

Thinking about this some more, if the issue is simply moving from pycentral to
dh_python2, then judging from debian/changelog the appropriate conflict would
be:

python-wxgtk2.8 (<< 2.8.12.1-1~)

Cheers,
    Olly