On 28-Jan-2000 Todd Suess wrote: > Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get > dist-upgrade, this was the result. > > tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > communicator-base-47 communicator-nethelp-47 communicator-smotif-47 > communicator-spellchk-47 gconv-modules libc6-bin netscape-base-4 > netscape-base-47 netscape-java-47 > The following packages have been kept back > mutt > 20 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > Why would an dist-upgrade want to totally remove my Netscape, which works > fine? >
it depends on a package which is no longer in the archive, a new netscape with updated depends will take care of this (hopefully soon).
