Re: What's going on with "testing"?
On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 13:02, stan wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:10:55PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2003 15:39, stan wrote:
> >
> > Have a look at the output of 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade' and look if there are
> > no new versions of the packages being installed in the process. As I see it,
> > the process is a little "unintuitive" at the moment, making apt-get display
> > strange things. Perhaps package names have changed.
>
> OK, here it is:
>
> Script started on Tue May 20 13:59:31 2003
> teddy:~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> audacity avifile-vorbis-plugin burgerspace ethereal-dev freeamp
> freeamp-extras kdebase-audiolibs libarts-mpeglib libvorbis0 mp3blaster
> mpeglib mq3 oggtst pygame python-imaging python-imaging-tk python-pygresql
> synopsis synopsis-formatter-dot
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> freeciv-client-gtk freeciv-data freeciv-server libclan2-mikmod
> libclan2-sound libclanlib2 libdb4.1 libgal23 libgcrypt1 libgnutls5 libidn9
> liblzo1 libmysqlclient12 libopencdk4 libtasn1-0 libvorbis0a
> python2.2-egenix-mxdatetime python2.2-egenix-mxtools python2.2-mysqldb
> python2.2-numeric python2.2-numeric-ext python2.2-orbit python2.2-xml
> python2.2-xmlbase
> The following packages have been kept back
> j2sdk1.3 kudzu libgd1 mc
> 53 packages upgraded, 24 newly installed, 19 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Much stuff Deleted . . .
> Look at all the ones mareked Remv.
>
> So when is this going to get better.
When the maintainers of the packages that are being removed update them
so that they will run on the current testing distribution.
Your choice is between:
1. The current testing distribution and doing without those packages
and
2. Keeping the older testing distribution and keeping those packages
The lastest testing distribution AND those packages is NOT an option.
madmac
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