Re: Bug#147543: apt-get dist-upgrade potato->woody removes vi/vim files
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> 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.
apt does *NOT* remove files. It installs, upgrades, and remove packages.
It is these package installs, upgrades, and removals that affect your system.
If a package ends up removing /usr/bin/vim, it's not apt's fault, but the
package that did the deed.
Do you blame gnome and kde when mozilla has a javascript hole, and you lose
$HOME, just because gnome and kde have mozilla in their menus and button bars?
> 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.
Well, that one upgrade was different. Find out what was different, and report
the problem against that package.
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).
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