Hello debian users, I am using pure64/sid. For the past week or so I am experiencing upgrading problems. A lot of packages are not being updated due to dependency issues. Is there a known problem that hasn't been fixed? here is what happens when i do apt-get update: ---- root@whale:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client exim4-base exim4-daemon-light gpm libapr0 libc6 libc6-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-dev libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgpmg1 libnspr-dev libnspr4 libnss-dev libnss3 libscrollkeeper0 locales mozilla-browser mozilla-dev mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support mozilla-psm nscd openoffice.org-debian-files pkg-config planner scrollkeeper 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. ---- If I try doing dist-upgrade, apt is asking to uninstall base-files, bash and a lot of other files that he shouldn't uninstall. --------- apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: base-files bash cupsomatic-ppd deborphan foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters foomatic-filters-ppds gnome gnome-desktop-environment gnome-volume-manager hal hal-device-manager hotplug libplanner1-0 mailx mkrboot mysql-server udev The following packages have been kept back: openoffice.org-debian-files The following packages will be upgraded: apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client exim4-base exim4-daemon-light gpm libapr0 libc6 libc6-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-dev libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgpmg1 libnspr-dev libnspr4 libnss-dev libnss3 libscrollkeeper0 locales mozilla-browser mozilla-dev mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support mozilla-psm nscd pkg-config planner scrollkeeper WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! base-files bash 32 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/52.6MB of archives. After unpacking 46.8MB disk space will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] n Abort. ----------- Does anyone know how to fix this? Many thanks for the help -- Andrei Mikhailovsky
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