Re: howto find out why dist-upgrade wants to remove a package?

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:36:07AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> was heard to say:
> ...
> The following packages are BROKEN:
>   ghostscript libaprutil1
> ...
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   ghostscript: Conflicts: gs-common (< 8.62) but 0.3.13 is installed and 
> it is kept back.
>                Conflicts: gs-gpl (< 8.62) but 8.56.dfsg.1-1.1 is  
> installed and it is kept back.
>   libaprutil1: Conflicts: php4-mysql (< 6:4.4.4-10) but 6:4.4.4-8 is  
> installed and it is kept back.
> Resolving dependencies...
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Remove the following packages:
> php4-mysql
> ...

  This isn't present in sid any more, and according to
<http://bugs.debian.org/476781>, it's because it's an obsolete package.
I see a bunch of php5 stuff in the archive, maybe you need to upgrade to
that?

  Daniel