[racket] Should `raco pkg update <x>` presume --update-deps?

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 11 16:37:16 EST 2013

At Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:35:30 -0500, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> Related to 'update = remove + install', when the user who's issue
> triggered this conversation ran using `--update-deps`, it didn't work:
> 
> > raco pkg update --update-deps frog
> raco pkg update: could not remove package
>  package not currently installed
>   current scope: user
>   package: (markdown 0.5)
>   currently installed:
>    base
>    frog
>    parsack
>    rackjure
>    markdown
>    find-parent-dir

Based on the error message, I assume that they were using v5.3.6.

There have been many repairs to package updating since v5.3.6, and I am
so far unable to trigger any problem along these lines in v5.90.x.
(I'll push some extra test cases that were my attempts.)


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