Re: Bug#147543: apt-get dist-upgrade potato->woody removes vi/vim files
Forgive my frustration with this, but why bother having a bug
reporting and tracking system if the bugs reported are just to be
blown off with flip remarks like "apt just installs packages. It
doesn't remove files from other packages." It certainly removes files
under many circumstances, including during upgrading and during
removing operations. *I* certainly didn't delete /usr/bin/vim.
This bug report isn't vague, but it is very simple. I've upgraded at
least five potato installations to woody, on i386, powerpc and sparc,
and only this time has this happened. Vim was there and installed in
potato and used daily. System was upgraded to woody. /usr/bin/vim
and all other related files and links are now deleted, and no new
files are installed in their place. The new, woody, version of vim
was NOT installed. This is fairly serious(or maybe just seriously
annoying). After the upgrade, dselect showed the old, 5.6.070 version
of vim is (supposedly) installed, but of course the files aren't
there.
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