Bug#608816: apt wants to remove a package instead of upgrading it.

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi Raoul Bhatia,

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 18:51, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] <r.bhatia@ipax.at> wrote:
> but apt wants to remove pure-ftpd-mysql.

To be sure, i would need a few more information, but
a wild wild guess is that your pure-ftpd-mysql depends
on pure-ftpd-common (= 1.0.28-3+b1) while available is
only pure-ftpd-common in version 1.0.28-3 (without +b1).


> i think that this is a bug ;)

We can look at the debug output to be sure:
apt-get dist-upgrade -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1 -s

And a bit more info about the involved packages:
apt-cache show pure-ftpd-common pure-ftpd-mysql


Best regards

David Kalnischkies