Quoting martin f krafft (2017-02-22 01:06:24) > Hey, > > I just upgraded a system that had ifupdown from backports.org on it. > Following cleanup and dpkg --audit etc., I ran > > root@cymbaline:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > ifupdown libasprintf0c2 libperl4-corelibs-perl libuuid-perl python-bson > python-pymongo > > and indeed, it then went on to remove ifupdown. > > What am I not understanding right here? Shouldn't "apt-get upgrade" > NEVER EVER EVER EVER remove something? > > Can I find out in hindsight (can't reproduce this) what might have > happened?
Maybe your ifupdown was flagged as auto-installed, a recent prior APT process upgraded to netbase 5.4 (no longer recommending ifupdown), and your latest APT process just finished an auto-removal of the no longer needed ifupdown for some reason not finalized earlier. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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