Package: bash
Version: 3.1dfsg-8
Severity: normal
I'm running Stable/Testing[1] for month, and I've seen this behaviour
only for the awfull Nvidia proprietary driver package : a testing
update+upgrade could lead to have bash removed because of a missing
dependency.
Here is the Aptitude screen showing this:
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Actions Undo Package Resolver Search Options Views Help
C-T: Menu ?: Help q: Quit u: Update g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs
Packages Resolve Dependencies
--\ Keep the following packages at their current version:
bash [3.1dfsg-8 (stable, now)]
nvidia-glx [100.14.19-1 (now)]
nvidia-glx-dev [100.14.19-1 (now)]
NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
nvidia-glx depends upon nvidia-kernel-169.09
--\ The following actions will resolve this dependency:
-> Keep nvidia-glx at version 100.14.19-1 (now)
-> Downgrade nvidia-glx [100.14.19-1 (now) -> 1.0.8776-4 (stable)]
-> Remove nvidia-glx [100.14.19-1 (now)]
[1(1)/...] Suggest 3 keeps
e: Examine !: Apply .: Next ,: Previous
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One can see that there is an option to REMOVE bash.
Indeed when one'll choose this option, aptitude will not select it
for removal... Hopefully ;)
But how could this be that an essential package like bash has a missing
dependency in testing ? Should we improve/harden the frontier between
unstable and testing ?
I'd be interested in knowing more about this. You can count on my help if
some is needed.
Cheers,
M.
[1] From sid I have only nvidia and some packages I create locally.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 4.0.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.28.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080119-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
bash recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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