On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 18:24, Nik A. Melchior <melchior+debian@cmu.edu> wrote: > Requested files sent privately. > > I receive the same error message from apt without "--purge". Thanks a lot! One line patch attached. You are partly right. The problem is the new dependency, but not itself. Its the automatically installed libcairo2-dev package which needs to be upgraded as libcairo2 is upgraded which causes a bunch of new packages to be installed which are all "garbage" as the only package who needs them is garbage, too. The autoremover thinks at first that it is useless to install new garbage packages and therefore removes them - later it notices that installed garbage packages depend on this new garbage, so it reinstalls them but it "forgets" to install the dependencies of these new garbage packages… Best regards David Kalnischkies
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