Bug#385146: Not a supported combination

[Steve Langasek]

severity 385146 serious
reassign 385146 libsvn0
retitle 385146 libsvn0 must depend on python-subversion or conflict with old trac
thanks

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:04:29PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> I've never used trac, but saw your report and felt a little strange.
> You blame a Debian version which version requirements are perfectly
> fullfilled (as you say, trac works with stable subversion) as shipped
> by Debian for a
> system you created by installing software not shipped in Debian.
> Moreover, trac broke because a *dependency* changed. How do you think
> the author of trac should have estimated this before the release of
> Sarge?

That doesn't make it a wishlist bug, though; it just makes it harder to fix.

Note that this same problem would affect partial upgrades from sarge to etch
in which libsvn0 was upgraded without installing the new python-subversion
package.  An upgrade path is needed here for old packages that depended on
libsvn0 because it was the only way to get the swig bindings.

This is parallel to bug #382058 on the perl side.

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