On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:36:18AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 11 May 2006 01:25, Frank Küster wrote: > > The only things that should be installed separately are > > probably aptitude, apt and dpkg, then just dist-upgrade.
> From memory, upgrading apt + friends seperately isn't possible whilst > synaptic is installed. In sarge, the gnome meta package depends on > synaptic, so this probably applies to a lot of desktop systems. > In sarge, synaptic depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3, which is provided > by apt. > In etch, apt provides libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11, which matches the depends > of synaptic in etch. > > Adding CC to APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org> since I'm > wondering whether the changes to apt really required dropping the provides > of libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3? Er, of course it did -- the library interface changed. > For the future, could apt provide a real library, hence solving this > problem for etch+1? APT *does* provide a real library. The fact that it's a virtual package has no effect except to ensure than only one libapt ABI is supported on the system at a time. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
