[Qgis-developer] Upgrading qgis

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 02/23/2015 09:01 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 02/22/2015 11:42 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> when upgrading qgis from 2.7 to 2.8 on Debian sid, python-qgis is not
>> upgraded automatically, so python support is disabled.
>> All the best.
>>
> This seems to be a perpetually unresolved bug. Had this same issue
> upgrading to 2.6 on ubuntu systems. I'm not sure what needs to change in
> the Debian control file to do this right.

The only dependency pulling in the python-qgis package is the Recommends
by the qgis package. Because there is no version requirement the package
is not forced to update when a new version is available in the archive,
although this is usually what happens. Recommends is not as strict a
dependency as Depends is, it allows to keep a package at the version as
installed if it allows the upgrade of other packages explicitly depended
upon.

It probably makes sense to move the python-qgis Recommends to Depends
and add a strict version requirement on the same binary version as is
done for qgis-providers too. See the attached patch for example.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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