apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

[Achim Bode <achim.bode@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I dist-upgrade from etch to unstable. I change my sources.list, 
performed a apt-get upgrade and be informed that some package will be 
removed.
gallery2 concerns me in particular since it not obsolete in testing. Is 
something wrong with my database  or do I misunderstand  something?

achim@sina: sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

---> changed the sources.list file from:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
to
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

achim@sina: sudo apt-get update
Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org testing Release.gpg [189B]
Get: 2 http://ftp.debian.org testing Release [74.4kB]
Get: 3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages [5276kB]
Get: 4 http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Packages [97.5kB]
Get: 5 http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Packages [83.5kB]
Fetched 5532kB in 25s (218kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done


achim@sina: sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
 firefox gallery2 gimp gimp-helpbrowser gimp-print gnome gnome-office 
gq gtk2-engines-spherecrystal gtoaster libcamel1.2-8 libebook1.2-5 
libedataserverui1.2-6
 libexchange-storage1.2-1 libglib1.2 libgnome-perl libgssapi2 
libgtk-imlib-perl libgtk-perl libldap-2.2-7 libldap-2.3-0 libldap2 
libnss3-0d libopal-2.2.0
 liborbit0 libpci2 libperl5.8 libpt-1.10.0 libpt-plugins-alsa 
libpt-plugins-v4l libsasl2 libssp0 libstlport4.6c2 libvte4 libwxgtk2.4-1 
libxul0d
 linux-kernel-headers modutils php4-mysql texmacs webcalendar 
xserver-xorg-video-newport xulrunner-gnome-support
.....

Thanks for any comment.

Achim