forcemerge 216768 594116 thanks Oldy but goldy. Make sure to read the merges for full enjoyment as i will only give short comments here as the full details are already said in other mails…
2010/8/23 Santiago Vila <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rodolfo Garcia wrote: >> When I remove the package (dummy) I do not have any problem. But in >> the next apt-get dist-upgrade it will be installed. I tryed to find >> why, but I cannot find any reason. > > Moreover, "apt-get dist-upgrade" insist on installing essential > packages *even if they are not essential anymore*. The question is: How should APT know that squeeze is the successor of lenny? Also, diffutils doesn't say that it is a complete and fullfeatured replacement for diff - as it more or less impossible to express it in a sane way with dependencies. So if a package previously depends (implicit) on a feature of diff, does diffutils really provides the very same feature (even Provides doesn't say that it is 100% backward compatible) … > There may be legitimate reasons why apt should install essential > packages, but I wish it would be a little bit smarter in cases like > this one and realize that diff is not essential anymore. The problem is: All packages on your system maybe depend on diff, so just because it is dropped in the next release doesn't mean that your system is fully upgraded to the next release and therefore no package depending on old diff is left -- if your system would be fully uptodate, why would have the old sources? Getting all essentials is the same in green: New essentials need to be installed in a dist-upgrade even if no package depends on them explicit as (new) packages could depend on it implicit… > As there is nothing in diffutils which may be made to fix this > behaviour, and I believe there is still room in apt for an > improvement, I reassign this to apt. Last not least: APT recently got a well hidden option for all those people who really think they need to care about it and want to hunt down essential packages in the future by hand instead of automatic… /me still thinks it is funny that people want to remove obsolete packages but not obsolete sources.list entries… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
