Bug#569353: apt-get proposes to autoremove a package that will be upgraded
Am Donnerstag, den 11.02.2010, 18:12 +0100 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.25.3
> Severity: normal
>
> The following is not consistent:
>
> # apt-get install -s serna
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> python-sip4
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> python-qt4 python-sip python-sip4
> Suggested packages:
> python-qt4-dbg
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> python-sip
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> python-qt4 python-sip4 serna
> 3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
> Inst serna [0.svn270-1] (0.svn270-2 Debian:unstable) []
> Inst python-qt4 [4.6-1] (4.7-2 Debian:unstable) []
> Inst python-sip4 [4.9-1+b1] (4.10-2 Debian:unstable) []
> Inst python-sip (4.10-2 Debian:unstable)
> Conf python-sip (4.10-2 Debian:unstable)
> Conf python-qt4 (4.7-2 Debian:unstable)
> Conf serna (0.svn270-2 Debian:unstable)
> Conf python-sip4 (4.10-2 Debian:unstable)
>
> Why proposing to autoremove python-sip4 while it needs to be upgraded?
python-sip4 is a transitional package and serna depends on python-sip.
python-sip conflicts with python-sip4 (<< 4.10). So, in order to install
python-sip, python-sip4 needs to be upgraded first. But once this is
done, python-sip4 will no longer be required. So the behaviour seems to
be correct.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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