Bug#225201: upgrade-reports: glibc upgrade causes apt-get dist-upgrade to remove many packages
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important
When upgrading a sarge box (relatively close to woody, as I don't
often enough dist-upgrade), I was told 100 or so critical packages
(including mutt) would be removed.
It appears to have been because of glibc dependencies.
Work-around: I first did an apt-get upgrade. Then I did apt-get
install's of packages that would have been removed until apt-get -u
dist-upgrade stopped reporting that it would remove much stuff. The
install that caused the change installed a new copy of glibc.
Sorry this is vague, I neglected to save the dist-upgrade output at
each step, nor the specific individual package I installed to get
glibc to update.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux asterix 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
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Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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