Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Anthony Towns wrote:-
>> The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are
>> mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper,
>> instead of the other way around, for some reason.
>> 
>> Easiest way to avoid this nastiness is to apt-get remove data-dumper
>> first.
>
>Is there an easy way here to see which package is at the root of the chain of
>dependencies and causing problems?  I found it by trial-and-error, but it can
>be terribly opaque.

Use dselect? That will tell you in its dependency resolution screens.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]