Hi David, and thanks for your thorough reply and explanation! On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 12:15:01PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > To refine this: apt¹ picks the first alternative which is either: > 1. already installed and satisfying as is > 2. already installed, but needs an upgrade to satisfy > 3. not installed, but can (may) be and would satisfy > > [...] That was my understanding as well (and what you wrote below too). > That said, I find it a bit odd that only libqt5gui5-gles conflicts with > libqt5gui5. I doubt it will help apt, but it seems more honest to also > have the reverse. Fun fact: having it only on one side actually gives > the one having it a scoring advantage in apts conflict resolution, so > for apt it reads in fact like -gles is the preferred package of the > two making it less likely that apt holds back libqt5gui5. In practice > other score points should level the playing field for libqt5gui5 though. > (At least on my system more things depend on it than -gles provides). Thanks for the suggestion! Having the reverse doesn’t hurt of course, so I have just added it in [1] and will include in the next upload. Let’s see if it makes things any better. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qtbase/-/commit/4064bf01d808094d -- Dmitry Shachnev
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