The same problem also appears when using apt-get dist-upgrade. However, aptitude does things correctly:
aschur...@neminis:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade [sudo] password for aschuring: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done aschur...@neminis:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: startup-tasks system-services upstart upstart-compat-sysv upstart-logd The following NEW packages will be installed: sysvinit 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 105kB of archives. After this operation, 750kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. aschur...@neminis:~$ aptitude why sysvinit Unable to find a reason to install sysvinit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
