Re: What's wrong with wmaker and wmaker-plain?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:
>I've been stopped in my most recent attempts to upgrade my systems by
>apt-get insisting it will remove wmaker and wmaker-plain.
>
>It does this on both my Intel Woody system, and my Sparc Potato system.
>Any attempt to do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" declares wmaker and
>wmaker-plain are to be removed, even when I set them on HOLD using
>dselect!

I was under the impression only dselect-upgrade paid attention to
selections in dselect, not dist-upgrade. (Not a generally helpful
answer, I know.) You could try 'apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1
dist-upgrade'.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]