On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 14:58:21 +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > I don't doubt that there is a smaller subset of packages that can reproduce > this failure, especially since installing those two drags in several hundred > others -- that was just as far as I had managed to get in narrowing it down > (sufficient vs necessary). Yes, the vm in which I have been testing this on is a > minimal installation + standard task and I've not touched defaults such as > installing recommends. > > Some further testing narrows it down further to: > > # apt-get --no-install-recommends install kde-window-manager > # sed -i s/squeeze/wheezy/ /etc/apt/sources.list; apt-get update; apt-get -s - > o Debug::pkgPackageManager=true dist-upgrade > → FAIL with error we have seen > I've just tried to reproduce this, and couldn't :( - start from a debootstrap --variant=minbase squeeze chroot - apt-get install aptitude - aptitude install ~pimportant ~pstandard - apt-get install --no-install-recommends kde-window-manager - sed; apt-get update - apt-get dist-upgrade and it worked. What did I miss? Do you have the /var/lib/dpkg/status from before upgrading? Cheers, Julien
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