Does this happen often with sid?
I am new to running the unstable sid distribution. Today I wanted to
upgrade it and when using the dist-upgrade option of apt-get (I think
that's equivalent to the full-upgrade option of apt), I got this:
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user@debian:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
attr grub-xen-bin grub-xen-host libcephfs2 libldap-2.4-2 libldb2
libpython3.9 libpython3.9-minimal
libpython3.9-stdlib libtdb1 libyaml-0-2 linux-image-5.16.0-3-amd64
python3-dnspython python3-gpg
python3-importlib-metadata python3-markdown python3-more-itertools
python3-pygments python3-requests-toolbelt
python3-yaml python3-zipp python3.9 python3.9-minimal samba-common
tdb-tools xen-hypervisor-4.16-amd64
xen-hypervisor-common xen-utils-common xenstore-utils
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
python3-ldb python3-samba python3-talloc python3-tdb samba
samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules samba-libs
samba-vfs-modules xen-system-amd64 xen-utils-4.16
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpython3.10-minimal libpython3.10-stdlib python3-charset-normalizer
python3.10 python3.10-minimal
The following packages will be upgraded:
dirmngr gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm
libpython3-stdlib python3 python3-minimal
python3-requests
11 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,842 kB of archives.
After this operation, 76.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
user@debian:~$
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The problem is with the section that lists the packages that will be
REMOVED.
It looks like the upgrade to the python3 packages that remove/replace
some existing python3 packages versions triggers apt to also remove
samba and xen-utils-4.16, which I do not want, so I aborted it. Can I
expect that in due time, the python3 dependencies will be updated so the
full upgrade can succeed without removing the xen-utils-4.16 and samba
packages?
Thanks,
Chuck
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