On 1 May 2001, Brian May wrote:
> Jason> No, it means you can't do this specific situation you asked
> Jason> for, you said dist-upgrade works, so you can in fact
> Jason> upgrade to unstable!
>
> I don't recall saying that. If so, I did, I am sorry, I must have been
> confused at the time (or maybe the archive has changed since then, or
You seem to be confused. It is in the bug log.
[..]
> apt-get dist-upgrade would work, but I want to remove my Helix packages
> first (otherwise things will break), and apt wont let me do that without
[..]
> It has the highest version number???? I always run dselect update???
I don't care? It is not the installed package! Why are you ignoring that
absolutely critical detail?? Lets review my first message:
> Try looking at the current version of perl-base, and then look at the
> thing that actually provides the pre-depends it needs, which in this case
> will be perl-5.004-base. This has very little to do with the packages you
> are going to install.
Now, hold my hand. Your installed perl-base looks like this:
> Package: perl-base
> Essential: yes
> Priority: required
> Section: base
> Installed-Size: 10
> Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 5.004.05-1.1
> Pre-Depends: perl5-base
^^^^^^^^^^^^
And your perl-5.004-base looks like this!
> snoopy:nfsroot:/# dpkg -s perl-5.004-base
> Package: perl-5.004-base
> Provides: perl5-base
^^^^^^^^^^
Mkay?
Now, the *only* ground you can attempt to stand on to claim this is an APT
bug is that it is erronously giving the error.
The above proves the relationship between perl-base and perl-5.004-base
and it also proves the fact that perl-base is essential -- on your system,
as it is now.
I established this in the last paragraph of my first message, which you
totally ignored. Establishing this absolves me of all responsibility so I
closed the bug.
> details to explain the problem, which you don't seem to understand,
> you are constantly accusing me of being wrong. However, thank-you for
Yes, of course, I have no idea how the software I wrote works. Silly me.
Jason
