Bug#351056: many packages involved, not just python-twisted
I've seen this problem come up from time to time before, but now I have it
on a large scale:
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdirectfb-0.9-24
The following packages will be upgraded:
afio alsa-oss anacron aptitude arping bc bmon cabextract cramfsprogs cvs dialog diff digikam
digikamimageplugins dirmngr discover dosfstools echoping ed fdutils firefox ftp gettext
gettext-base gnome-bin gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpart gpgsm gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-x gstreamer0.8-mad gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-oss gstreamer0.8-vorbis
gtk-engines-industrial gtk-engines-qtpixmap gtk-engines-thinice gtk-theme-switch
gtk2-engines-gtk-qt hal hspell html2text ifupdown iptables k9copy kchmviewer kile kipi-plugins
klinkstatus knights ksensors libart-2.0-2 libartsc0-dev libaudiofile0 libavc1394-0 libbonobo2-0
libbonobo2-common libcap1 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libdigest-sha1-perl libdiscover2
libdvdread3 libedit2 libgcrypt11 libgdbm3 libgii0 libgii0-target-x libgnokii2 libgnome32
libgnomeui32 libgpg-error-dev libgpg-error0 libgsm1 libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer0.8-0
libgtk1.2 libidl0 libieee1284-3 libimlib2 libjasper-1.701-1 libjpeg62-dev libkexif1 libkipi0
libkrb5-dev liblocale-gettext-perl libmad0 libmad0-dev libmeanwhile1 libmodplug0c2 libnet1
libnss-db libopencdk8 liborbit0 liborbit2 libpcap0.7 libpopt-dev libpopt0 libpth2 libqt3-mt
libquicktime0 libraw1394-5 libselinux1 libshout3 libsqlite0 libswfdec0.3 libtext-charwidth-perl
libtext-iconv-perl lockfile-progs lynx mailx mathopd mawk mplayer-nogui mt-st ncompress nvi
ocaml orpie pinentry-qt pppoe python2.3-qt3 python2.3-sip4-qt3 qt3-dev-tools screen sgt-puzzles
shared-mime-info sharutils spamc tcptraceroute telnet time util-linux vsftpd w3m wget xchm
xinetd
142 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After unpacking 1573kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 112239 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace diff 2.8.1-11 (using .../diff_2.8.1-11_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement diff ...
Setting up diff (2.8.1-11) ...
(Reading database ... 112239 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-8 (using .../util-linux_2.12r-8_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement util-linux ...
Setting up util-linux (2.12r-8) ...
(Reading database ... 112239 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 (using .../liblocale-gettext-perl_1.05-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement liblocale-gettext-perl ...
Preparing to replace mawk 1.3.3-11 (using .../mawk_1.3.3-11_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mawk ...
Preparing to replace libgtk1.2 1.2.10-18 (using .../libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgtk1.2 ...
Preparing to replace libsqlite0 2.8.16-1 (using .../libsqlite0_2.8.16-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsqlite0 ...
Preparing to replace screen 4.0.2-4.1 (using .../screen_4.0.2-4.1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement screen ...
Preparing to replace libselinux1 1.30-1 (using .../libselinux1_1.30-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libselinux1 ...
... and so on. You get the picture. Every time I run apt-get dist-upgrade,
the same set of packages gets reinstalled. I've been monkeying around with
my sources.list file; it doesn't seem that that should matter, but maybe it
does.
Thanks, Andrew.
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