Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages
On 2016-09-28 21:37:54 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> > On 2016-09-28 10:46:31 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> >> Vincent Lefevre writes:
>
> >>> Things like that should not happen. But this is not a bug in the
> >>> perl packages. This is a misfeature of apt / aptitude, which want to
> >>> remove packages instead of holding the new packages (well, AFAIK,
> >>> aptitude has improved, but is still not perfect).
>
> >> Aptitude can't read your mind.
>
> > I'm not asking it to read my mind. I just want it not to remove any
> > package I have manually installed.
>
> Sometimes packages change their name or are replaced by different
> packages or are just removed without any viable replacement.
But in such cases, the solution is to override the default
requirements. And it is nice to be blocked by default, as
this does not involve a simple package upgrade: one may need
to update config files, scripts, and so on.
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