[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#709522: Bug#709522: xfce4: Upgrading from 4.8.3 did not upgrade xfce4-session

Josep Lladonosa jlladono at gmail.com
Thu May 30 09:24:08 UTC 2013


Hello,

Well, the fact is that if xfce4 gets upgraded but not xfce4-session, some
parts of xfce4 are not useable, so I would give some proposals to
gracefully react:

I am not a maintainer, but from my point of view I think that something
about it should be done during the upgrade, and there might be solutions.
Just remembering and seaching a little options might be:

a) just warn user
b) do some sort of "stopping" (saving?) xfe4-session (like some packages
that ask to reload daemons) in order to be able to finish xfce4-session
installation (and start it afterwards?.
c) ask dev list to discuss the change of "depend" into "pre-depend" (don't
think it is the good way, anyway this is for extreme situations... but why
installing xfce4 if xfce4-session could not install?)


Regards,
Josep

On 23 May 2013 21:48, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:

> On jeu., 2013-05-23 at 21:39 +0200, Josep Lladonosa wrote:
> > Package: xfce4
> > Version: 4.10.1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > I made a dist-upgrade having xfce 4.8.3 (from graphical environment,
> > though),
> > and xfce4-session did not get upgraded to 4.10.1. Something happened.
>
> Thanks, what are we supposed to do with that?
> >
>
> > Perhaps if I had upgraded in a text-only environment it would have
> > run smoothly, but being in X and xfce is very usual when upgrading
> > xfce....
> > ;)
> >
> And it's usually a bad idea too. We don't recommend it in the various
> releases notes.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Yves-Alexis
>



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Salutacions...Josep
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