Re: WARNING! (was: Re: New Perl Packages Released)
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:00:06AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > polya:~ # apt-get dist-upgrade
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > [...]
> > 56 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 93 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 47.3MB of archives. After unpacking 109MB will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> > Abort.
> > polya:~ #
> >
> > 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.)
>
> I've had something similar happen to me a while back which turned out
> to be caused by dselect looking at Recommends: and Suggests: as well,
> whereas apt only looked at Depends: and Pre-Depends:
> Any chance you are seeing the same behaviour?
Could be. If someone tells me what to look for, I'll do so. But this
definitely needs fixing sometime real soon.
Julian
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