Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Achim Bode wrote:
> Hugo wrote:
> > Achim Bode wrote:
> >  
> >     Hi,
> >
> >        
> >     I dist-upgrade from etch to unstable. I change my sources.list,
> >     performed a apt-get upgrade and be informed that some package will
> >     be removed. gallery2 concerns me in particular since it not
> >     obsolete in testing. Is something wrong with my database or do I
> >     misunderstand something?
> > <snip>
> >
> > See my earlier query and the answer from Daniel Burrows: try running
> >
> > aptitude -s dist-upgrade
> >
> >   and that will tell you much more about the reasons that removal is 
> > suggested.
> > But how to avoid it is another question ;-)
> >
> > Hugo
>
> thanks for this suggestion. I figured out that installing php5-mysql in 
> etch solved the problem. gallery2 depends on php5-mysql or php4-mysql or 
> some postgres drivers in etch, but php4-mysql is not available in 
> testing. I can see that is difficult for dist-upgrade to make a decision 
> for the mysql driver in gallery2 probably without knowing that php4 is 
> deprecated in favor of php5. So fare I did not do the dist-upgrade, but 
> I do not see that php4-mysql will be removed from my system.
>
> Do you think I should file a bug, and if where?

I tend to file bugs for problems that I have no workaround for. Since 
you solved your problem I would not.

Hugo