Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:01:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
It's difficult to understand your OP, and your difficulty with
pasting. However, to take one example,
Indeed without OP's terminal output we can only guess as to why the
packages are being removed from their system,
[wicd] news
[2020-08-22] Removed 1.7.4+tb2-6 from unstable (Debian FTP Masters)
[2019-12-06] Accepted wicd 1.7.4+tb2+2019.09.18git2e0ba579-1 (source all)
into experimental, experimental (Axel Beckert)
[2019-10-23] wicd REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
wicd has been removed from the archive (because it is unmaintained) but
it should not be automatically removed from people's systems as a
consequence. There must be another explanation for OP's situation.
That said OP would be wise to look for an alternative to wicd now.
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