Hi! * Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [060908 20:36]: [ apt-get dist-upgrade to etch doesn't install debianrchive-keyring and gnupg ] > > Shouldn't the Recommends: debian-archive-keyring be enought? AFAIK > > the Release Notes recommend using aptitude instead of apt-get. And > > aptitude respects recommends should pull in debian-archive-keyring, > > which depends on gnupg. > Ah, good catch. (I wonder why apt has a separate Suggests: gnupg then?) > > This means that users who dist-upgrade using aptitude, pulling in > Recommends, should not have this problem; so the most that should be needed > here is release notes documentation. Assuming someone can test that this > works as expected? Uhm... seems that I was to fast. I just did a small test (created a new sarge chroot, changed sources.list, tried a dist-upgrade), and even when using aptitude neither debian-archive-keyring nor gnupg are installed. While apt and apt-utils are upgraded, I get the following note from aptitude: ===== The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: aptitude-doc-en debian-archive-keyring libtasn1-2-bin locales mtools ===== Note the debian-archive-keyring. Installing aptitude von etch before dist-upgrading doesn't either; debian-archive-keyring is still not installed... damn, even if I try to install aptitude and gnupg from etch before dist-upgrading debian-archive-keyring won't be installed. (Yes, this is sarges normal aptitude with the out of the box configuration, which should respect recommends; I tried everything with "--with-recommends" just to be sure, too.) What now? I don't know how to investigate aptitudes behaviour of not installing debian-archive-keyring during dist-upgrades any further. And I dislike the "let's put a paragraph into the release-notes, that people need to install debian-archive-keyring before running dist-upgrade", because there are just to much people, which won't read it. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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