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Re: Bug#147543: apt-get dist-upgrade potato->woody removes vi/vimfiles



Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:41:05 -0700
> Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Either some package conflicted with vim, and caused apt to remove it(not apt's
> > > fault, but the fault of the conflicting package), or some package during
> > > upgrade had a bug, and removed just vim's files(this kind of targetted bug is
> > > very unlikely, but, in any case, not apt's fault).
> >
> > OK, I forgot that I did just what the instructions said to do, for
> > once in my life.  Yup, I kept a typescript of the session.  It's all
> > spelled out in there.  vim-perl gets removed for some strange reason
> > when I did
> >
> > # apt-get install dpkg apt debconf
> >
> > I don't know why.  Maybe one of you experts do.  I attached the
> > bzipped typescript log of the upgrade session.
> 
> Your typescript suggests you didn't do what you say here you do.
> Try doing apt-get install dpkg apt debconf before doing
> apt-get dist-upgrade.
> 
> --
> dancer@debian.org  http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer

Look at it again.  That's exactly what I did, and that's when vim-perl
was mysteriously removed.

a


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