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
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