Package: upgrade-reports I just did a dry-run of a woody->sarge upgrade as a test for the release notes. I made sure my Woody environment was fully up-to-date. The system does contain some unofficial packages: - KDE 3.2.0-0woody1 (from download.kde.org) - OpenOffice1.1 1.1beta2-2 (from www.fs.tum.de/~bunk) - Various backports: subversion, automake, gettext - Self-compiled from CVS: kdevelop, vlc I wanted to upgrade to sarge's aptitude before the main dist-upgrade and tried different combinations: Method Upgrade New inst Remove Held - aptitude install aptitude dpkg 60 35 128 565 - apt-get install aptitude dpkg 61 52 111 575 Among the things to be removed were: - perl and a lot of perl-related packages - autoconf, automake, devscripts, dpkg-dev - gs (ghostscript) - kde development packages - openoffice On a hunch I tried: Method Upgrade New inst Remove Held - aptitude install aptitude dpkg perl 65 82 26 655 - apt-get install aptitude dpkg perl 65 91 21 658 This left only some (obsolete?) perl packages and OpenOffice to be removed; a much more satisfying result. So it looks as if we need the upgrade instructions to be somewhat flexible: see if important packages will be removed and try adding them in the initial upgrade. Question I thought an issue with unwanted removal of perl had been resolved? Cheers, FJP
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