In <[🔎] 8roudpFgapU1@mid.individual.net>, Charles Kroeger wrote: >apt (0.8.11) unstable; urgency=low > > * apt-get install pkg/experimental will now not only switch the > candidate of package pkg to the version from the release > experimental but also of all dependencies of pkg if the current > candidate can't satisfy a versioned dependency. > > -- David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> Fri, 03 Dec 2010 > 14:09:12 +0100 > >After hitting the 'q' key this message clears and the the packages >unpack and setup. > >What is David Kalnischkies telling me here? apt-listchanges is displaying the new part of the debian/changelog. The change introduced basically makes the package/archive install specification less brain damaged, so that it does the right thing in more cases. Previously, if foo/experimental Depends on bar (> some_ver) and bar/unstable was < some_ver but bar/experimental was > some_ver apt-get would propose a not-so-good solution. Now, it will propose to install foo/experimental and bar/experimental. (I think before it might have prompted the user, or failed to install foo. I think is had even worse behavior on a Recommends relationship, like installing foo/experimental and bar/unstable even though foo/experimental can't use bar/unstable.) I rarely use apt-get to install packages though, so I'm not too familiar with how it's resolver behaves in situations like this. I use aptitude, which can certainly propose some stupid stuff initially, but provides an interactive resolver that is really easy for me to find the solution that makes sense. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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