On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recommend to always do an upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade (or > > install of something pulling in 200mb). The upgrade will never install > > new or remove packages so it is save. It usualy reduces the number of > > packages to something where the search algorithm doesn't go wrong. > > This is what I used to do as well, but it doesn't seem to be working that > way any more. upgrade (and safe-upgrade) was pulling in a bunch of new > packages due to devscripts's Recommends.
That should gradually be improving, as the Recommends have been trimmed for the majority of the recent uploads (including the as-yet-unuploaded 2.10.27). Some of them (e.g. citadel-*) are side-effects of issues with other packages. :-/ Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]