Bug#608816: marked as done (apt wants to remove a package instead of upgrading it.)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #608816,
regarding apt wants to remove a package instead of upgrading it.
to be marked as done.
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- To: bugs@debian.org
- Subject: apt wants to remove a package instead of upgrading it.
- From: "Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]" <r.bhatia@ipax.at>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:51:37 +0100
- Message-id: <4D220CA9.4020307@ipax.at>
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny2
Severity: normal
i have a home made package what requires pure-ftpd:
> root@xx ~ # apt-cache show ipax-webserver
> Package: ipax-webserver
> Version: 0.23-20
> Architecture: all
> Maintainer: Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] <r.bhatia@ipax.at>
> Installed-Size: 76
> Depends: ipax-webserver-base, pure-ftpd-mysql | pure-ftpd,
mysql-server, mysql-client
> Suggests: php5-imagick, php-apc, mysql-proxy
> Filename: ipax/ipax-webserver_0.23-20_all.deb
> Size: 5306
> MD5sum: a67b29ce29d31cbc174b5ff8116b008a
> SHA1: ce88c3a1782e71d27214288673744d1c87a4c052
> SHA256: 5b6b7772a76beb16ede647bc92d0ef9c4ca7046a206f94abe38adeda4327dde2
> Section: web
> Priority: optional
> Homepage: http://pkg.ipax.at/
> Description: IPAX webserver meta package
> Common IPAX webserver configuration.
i have a self-made repository with the most recent pure-ftpd-mysql
packages:
> root@xx ~ # apt-cache policy pure-ftpd-common pure-ftpd-mysql
> pure-ftpd-common:
> Installed: 1.0.28-2
> Candidate: 1.0.28-3
> Version table:
> 1.0.28-3 0
> 1001 http://pkg.ipax.at ipax/ Packages
> *** 1.0.28-2 0
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 1.0.21-11.4 0
> 500 http://pkg.sil.at lenny/main Packages
> pure-ftpd-mysql:
> Installed: 1.0.28-2
> Candidate: 1.0.28-3+b1
> Version table:
> 1.0.28-3+b1 0
> 1001 http://pkg.ipax.at ipax/ Packages
> *** 1.0.28-2 0
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 1.0.21-11.4 0
> 500 http://pkg.sil.at lenny/main Packages
/etc/apt/preferences tells apt to score pkg.ipax.at with 1001.
now, i want to dist-upgrade:
> root@xx ~ # apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> ipax-webserver pure-ftpd-mysql
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> pure-ftpd-common
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 181kB of archives.
> After this operation, 737kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
but apt wants to remove pure-ftpd-mysql.
i think that this is a bug ;)
thanks,
raoul
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 15:37, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] <r.bhatia@ipax.at> wrote:
> i did not encounter this problem again.
> so maybe it was like you guessed.
So, lets close this bug for now if it is not reproducible.
Feel free to reopen it if it happens again.
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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