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From: Yann Dirson [mailto:ydirson@alcove-fr]On Behalf Of Yann Dirson
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 4:19 PM
To: Debian Bug Tracking System
Subject: Bug#216768: apt-get dist-upgrade: wrong handling of
formerly-essential packages
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
When pointing to potato and woody, we get a situation where 2 packages (ldso
and update) lost essential status:
$ apt-cache show ldso | grep-dctrl -sPackage,Version,Essential -P ldso
Package: ldso
Version: 1.9.11-15
Essential:
Package: ldso
Version: 1.9.11-9
Essential: yes
"apt-get dist-upgrade" insists on installing essential packages. But in the
light of the present situation, we have a problem to define what to install.
Apparently APT tags ldso and update as "essential" as a whole... and based
on versions decides to force upon us installation of the more recent
non-essential version.
I don't suggest that the older version be installed, but I'd expect APT to
take into account the essential status of the eligible version, and so not
to consider it to be forcedly installed.
Currently, I just cannot make use of dist-upgrade, unless I accept this old
obsolete stuff on my machines, or unless I stop refering to potato.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux winnipeg 2.4.22+nfs-ngroups+preempt+lowlatency-station #1 mer
oct 8 17:38:11 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
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Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com>
http://www.alcove.com/
Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance
technique
Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels
Libres
Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur
Debian
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