Re: Bug#31359: How are you supposed to deal with two problems at the same time?

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

> > I'm in a situation where it seems logical to do:
> > apt-get -f -m install

Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> wrote:
> I'm not sure why this is a bug, as you have not given any indication of
> buggy behavoir.

Hmm... ok, buggy behavior is that apt recommends apt -f install,
but that doesn't work [and no, apt doesn't recommend anything useful
at that point].

As it turned out apt-get -f -m install did absolutely nothing.

Installing the packages which I knew needed to be installed, using
dpkg, didn't solve it either.

What I did to "solve" the problem was:

apt-get check
apt-get -m dist-upgrade 

Perhaps apt should be recommending apt-get check instead of 
apt-get -f install?  Perhaps the apt-get man page should have
a section on problem resolution?  I'm not sure...

-- 
Raul