Bug#544481: Bug#557209: Bug#544481: apticron: apt-get dist-upgrade pulling required packages from unstable

[Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>]

Hi,

On Wed, 28.04.2010 at 21:14:52 +0200, David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/4/28 Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>:
> > 2) diffutils and dash are "Priority: required"/"Essential: yes" in
> > unstable, but weren't in lenny.
> Every time we talk about the "problem" outlined here it boils down to:
> Why the user still have the (old)stable repository in his sources?

this is easy to answer: Some people, like me, run a mostly stable
system, but need a few bits from up to unstable, ***NOT*** the other
way round, as you suggest.

> If (s)he has no package left from this old archive it is as obsolete as the
> now obsolete transition packages (s)he want to remove.

We're talking about stable, not oldstable, here. So please calm down
instead of flaming users for running "obsolete" stuff. Also, the
package handling should be easy enough for users who are not deities
themselves.

> If the user don't want to see it (s)he can e.g. put the not installed
> package on hold and will be done with it?

This does not seem to work in all cases. I've recently struggled with a
system that was trying to remove or upgrade packages that I had
explicitly set on hold immediately before. But I made no recordings,
so...


Kind regards,
--Toni++