Re: testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

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

Bryan Walton <bryan@bryansweb.com> wrote:
>This morning I went in to work and started to perform the usual apt-get -f
>dist-upgrade on my testing box.  Luckily I always throw in a -s into the
>equation first so that I can see what is about to happen:
>
>1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about a week or two ago.
>2) Now, testing wants to upgrade to the new testing version, (0.5.3).  No
>problem, yet . . .
>3) To do so, my current version of apt wants to remove the following
>packages to do that upgrade:
>
[...]
>Remv debconf (0.5.65 )
>Inst apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)
>Conf apt (0.5.3 Debian:testing)

That version of debconf is newer than the one in testing, which might be
a problem - I imagine it depends on some other version of apt.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]