Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client
Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm running Trixie on an AMD64 system.
>
> Yesterday after doing my usual morning full-upgrade, I rebooted because
> there were a lot of Plasma-related updates. When I logged in, I found I
> wasn't connected to my file server shares. I eventually traced this down
> to a lack of nfs software on my workstation. Reinstalling nfs-client
> fixed this.
>
> I guess I need to pay closer attention to what autoremove tells me it's
> going to remove, but I'm confused as to why it would remove nfs-client &
> related packages.
>
> This follows a couple of previous full-upgrades that were having
> problems. The first, a few days ago, was stopped by gdb not being
> available. However, it installed fine manually (apt install gdb). I
> don't see why apt full-upgrade didn't do this automatically as a
> dependency for whatever package needed it.
>
> The second was blocked by the lack of a lcl-qt5 or lcl-gtk5 library. I
> can see this as legitimate because it looks like you don't need both so
> the package manager lets you decide which you want.
>
> Not looking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've
> encountered lately.
the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages
to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted.
i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are
many Mate packages that would be removed.
songbird
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