Debugging apt's dist-upgrade decisions?
Hello
When trying to upgrade a desktop system apt-get was about to remove 192 packages.
* First problem was that I had a /etc/apt/preferences that contained backports.org
entries. It would be good if at least "apt-get dist-upgrade" warns because it took
me a while to remember that the pinning overrides the version numbers
* Second problem is that there are still ~100 packages marked for deletion. Most of
them are probably ok but for some I would like to know how apt-get came to this
decision. Is there some flag that lets apt-get say "x conflicts with y, removing y"?
bye,
-christian-
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