Bug#411280: apt-get actually works (sometimes?) better than aptitude

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>]

Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

While upgrading my desktop from sarge to etch today, I noticed that the
recommended aptitude command line fails to work, while apt-get just
works giving an acceptable solution. This is after I've already upgraded
aptitude and the dependencies it pulled in (libc, and removing my
running kernel).

Please find attached the list of currently installed packages with
versions, the output of aptitude -f dist-upgrade, and the output of
apt-get dist-upgrade (sorry, it's by /usr/bin/script, which enters
garbage in which you need to skip).

Of course, this is just one single data-point, I don't know how
representative this is.

--Jeroen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357)
http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Attachment: apt-get.gz
Description: Binary data

Attachment: aptitude.gz
Description: Binary data

Attachment: apt-show-versions.gz
Description: Binary data