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Re: potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare



Bill Wohler wrote:
>   Are there any tools that allow you to answer the question: Why did
>   the update of these 100 packages cause these 30 perfectly good
>   packages to get removed? This task is impossible to do by hand.

It's helpful to turn on apt's problems resolver output. 
-o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true

There will probably be a dependancy problem somewhere.

> > Don't bother filing a bug on this though, it's totally innocuous and
> > fixed in unstable.
> 
>   Thanks for letting me know. That was in debconf?

Yes.

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