Bug#569353: apt-get proposes to autoremove a package that will be upgraded
On 2010-02-11 21:56:21 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 11.02.2010, 18:12 +0100 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> > # 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.
[...]
> > 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.
OK, I understand. I think the message "The following packages were
automatically installed and are no longer required" above is a bit
unclear. It should be: "The following packages were automatically
installed and will no longer be required", if this is really what
is meant.
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