Re: Bug#592900: Updating system-config-printer
2010/9/13 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>:
> On 06.09.2010 22:54, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>
>> A question which i have in mind since i read that the mentioned
>> packages are not compatible as they are in different namespaces:
>> Is this breaks just here to remove the package from the system?
>> If so, thats not the idea behind breaks…
>> If they are co-installable they should be co-installable,
>> end-of-support is not an other word for breaking away packages
>> as it breaks third-party archives as well as self-builds.
>> Let autoremove and co handle these instead…
>
> I tested a lenny→squeeze upgrade of a default GNOME desktop installation.
> aptitude is much more aggressive in removing unused packages, e.g. during the
> upgrade dead packages like dhcdbd are not removed by apt, whereas they are with
> aptitude.
aptitude nukes autoremove packages directly in the upgrade run.
apt-get can do this too, but it is disabled by default and deferred to an
autoremove run… (as far as i know you can't disable it in aptitude).
> I ran apt-get autoremove after the dist-upgrade, but it did not remove any packages!
You are bitten by the silly bug #594689 fixed in 0.8.1 and above
which is not yet in testing. We are busy waiting currently a bit for
the incoming bug-rate to stabilize and last translations updates
to come in before bothering the release team again…
(beside that i was a bit short on time thanks to a few exams).
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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