Bug#301587: apt: Odd recommendation on dist-upgrade (upgrade gets it right)

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

merge 301587 170522
thanks

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:57:11PM -0800, Jefferson Cowart wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.28.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> This afternoon when I ran a dist-upgrade on my sarge box I got an odd
> recommendation about upgrading php4:
> 
> # apt-get dist-upgrade -u

-u is the default these days.

> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   apache-common libapache-mod-php4
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libapache2-mod-php4 php4 php4-common php4-mysql
> 4 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/4314kB of archives.
> After unpacking 6264kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> 
> # apt-get upgrade -u
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libapache2-mod-php4 php4 php4-common php4-mysql
> 4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1829kB of archives.
> After unpacking 21.5kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> 
> php4 declares a dependancy on libapache2-mod-php4 or libapache-mod-php4.
> Thus I don't understand why it wants to install apache and
> libapache-mod-php4 when the apache2 version of both of those packages
> are already installed.

This looks like another instance of #170522 et al.

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 - mdz