On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:45:21AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:30:07PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > AAARGH!!!! > > > > > > You didn't say that these few changes would cause a dist-upgrade to > > > remove half the system. > > > > > > There's no "Provides: perl5" in the transitional perl-5.6 package!!! > > > > Package: perl > > Provides: perl5, data-dumper > > > > The upgrade works fine here. > > polya:~ # apt-get dist-upgrade > [...] > > But interestingly, if I use dselect with the APT backend, everything > goes OK. I'm not sure where the descrepancy lies. (dselect wants to > install perl, but apt-get dist-upgrade on its own doesn't.) For anyone who is interested, I've attached to this mail the output of apt-get -s --option Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade which might give more information needed to solve this problem. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
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