Bug#179449: dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade anything, but wants to install new packages and remove some old ones nevertheless
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
Hi,
root@utopia:/root# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gaim gaim-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aspell aspell-bin aspell-en libapm1 libaspell15 libgnomeprint2.2-0
libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
libgtkspell0 xlibmesa3-glu
The following packages have been kept back
gedit gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
gnome-session gnome-terminal libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0
libbonoboui2-common libeel2-2 libeel2-data libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0
libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-gnome-1 libnautilus2-2
libpanel-applet2-0 xlibmesa3 yelp
0 packages upgraded, 11 newly installed, 2 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2913kB of archives. After unpacking 5493kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
(I guess this is related to an earlier bug I filed, where apt wants to
install held packages' newer versions' dependencies, but I haven't seen it
want to remove any package for this purpose yet.)
Andrew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux chardonnay 2.4.20-wolk4.0s-pre3-chardonnay #1 Sun Dec 29 18:22:04 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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