I've been getting a strange scenario lately with trying to upgrade to potato... after I did a `apt-get update', I noticed that `apt-get -s upgrade' noted that slang1 was being kept back. Curious as to why slang1 was being kept back, I did a `apt-get -s install slang1' and apt-get responded that the packages ae, gimp, modconf, newt0.30, whiptail would have been *removed*.
Apparently there is some dependency problem around newt0.30 and whiptail that caused a cascade of packages to need removal? But what I really *don't* understand is why gimp would be removed. What has it got to do with newt/whiptail anyway??! Also, isn't ae supposed to be a base package? Why is it removing ae? (Or am I missing the fact that ae is now part of some other package somewhere out there?) T
