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Problem with apt-get dist-upgrade: kernel is removed



Hello,

As I do almost everyday, I upgraded my Woody Debian system with
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

However, this time I got a very strange result:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cpio debhelper dpkg-dev initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.12-686
  kernel-image-2.4.14-686 kernel-package nvidia-glx-src nvidia-kernel-src
The following packages have been kept back
  libsmpeg0 xmps xmps-common
29 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 3  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9001kB of archives. After unpacking 44.7MB will be freed.

However, I am running kernel 2.4.12-686! So I can't have it removed...

I tried to fix it, by installing 2.4.14 kernel image too, but as can be seen above, it also wants to remove *that* kernel... And it also removes a lot of other debian stuff and also my nvidia video drivers...

I guess somewhere there is a wrong dependency...!?

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