On Thursday 11 of December 2014 04:48:43 Mike Bird wrote:
> The upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to R14 includes a lot of package
> "renames".
>
> After a clean i386 Wheezy 3.5.13.2 install of kde-trinity
> is upgraded to R14 RC2, an "apt-get autoremove" removes
> 48 transitional dummy packages.  This is good.
>
> However there are still (roughly) 15 transitional dummy
> packages whose descriptions say they can be safely
> uninstalled.  All that is preventing them from being
> uninstalled is two meta packages - kde-trinity and
> kde-core-trinity.  And so the conscientious sysadmin
> removes the two unnecessary meta packages and the
> (roughly) 15 remaining transitional dummy packages.
>
> And the next "apt-get autoremove" eats 290 packages
> which is most of Trinity.
>
> If you had less than a normal kde-trinity installation
> of 3.5.13.2 this problem hits you much sooner and
> without uninstalling any meta packages.
>
> What to do?  Something in the release notes?

Yes, there is a problem in that packages kde-trinity, kde-core-trinity and 
kde-devel-trinity are not automatically replaced with new tde-trinity, 
tde-core-trinity and tde-devel-trinity. The reason is that the previous KDE 
meta-packages have different version numbers, and they were so far in advance 
compared to the standard R14 numbering.

As you suggest, this would be good to mention in the instructions for 
upgrading on Debian.

Incidentally, there are also general comments about the replacement packages 
during upgrade - for example, replace kpowersave to tdepowersave and 
knetworkmanager to tdenetworkmanager. This is independent of the 
distribution. Where should we put these instructions?

-- 
Slávek