Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade removes random packages.

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

Hugo wrote:
> Achim Bode wrote:
>   
>
>     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? 
>
> <snip>
>
> See my earlier query and the answer from Daniel Burrows: try running
>
> aptitude -s dist-upgrade
>
>   
> and that will tell you much more about the reasons that removal is 
> suggested.
> But how to avoid it is another question ;-)
>
> Hugo

thanks for this suggestion. I figured out that installing php5-mysql in 
etch solved the problem. gallery2 depends on php5-mysql or php4-mysql or 
some postgres drivers in etch, but php4-mysql is not available in 
testing. I can see that is difficult for dist-upgrade to make a decision 
for the mysql driver in gallery2 probably without knowing that php4 is 
deprecated in favor of php5. So fare I did not do the dist-upgrade, but 
I do not see that php4-mysql will be removed from my system.

Do you think I should file a bug, and if where?

Thanks,

Achim