The same problem today, this time upgrading 'gpm': piti:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gpm 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. piti:~# piti:~# piti:~# apt-get install gpm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libgpmg1 The following packages will be upgraded: gpm 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 222kB of archives. After this operation, 147kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org lenny/main gpm 1.20.4-2 [222kB] Fetched 222kB in 0s (534kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: libgpmg1: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: gpm depends on libgpmg1 (>= 1.20.0). (Reading database ... 142298 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libgpmg1 ... (Reading database ... 142292 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gpm 1.20.3~pre3-3 (using .../gpm_1.20.4-2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gpm ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up gpm (1.20.4-2) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/gpm ... piti:~#
>From this example I can guess that "dist-upgrade" does not even consider removing packages. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
