Re: Bind security announce

[Account for Debian group mail <debian@pcez.com>]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:

> On 12/29/2010 03:34 AM, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > The following packages will be REMOVED
> >   bind9 bind9-host bind9utils dnsutils libbind9-50 libisccfg50
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   base-files bind9-doc dpkg dpkg-dev dselect krb5-doc libaprutil1 libc6
> > libc6-amd64 libc6-dev libc6-dev-amd64 libc6-i686
> >   libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libkrb53 liblwres50
> > libpq5 libssl-dev libssl0.9.8 libxml2 libxml2-dev
> >   linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 linux-libc-dev locales openssl postgresql-client
> > postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-doc
> >   postgresql-doc-8.3 tzdata
> > 32 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 62.6MB of archives.
> > After this operation, 5464kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> >
> > Look at this! it wants to REMOVE "bind9 bind9-host bind9utils dnsutils
> > libbind9-50 libisccfg50".
> >
> > What is going wrong here?
>
> Try to use aptitude, it makes smarter decisions when solving package
> dependencies than apt/dselect
>
> # aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade

Are you saying that dselect is no longer usefull on doing security 
upgrades? I've been using dselect for over 15 years doing just that. The 
only time I've used aptitude is for doing major version upgrades. If there 
is a problem with dselect let's get it fixed or remove it from use.

Thanks,

Ken