When I try to apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing, it wants to uninstall 189 packages. This seems like a problem to me, but I am not sure how to report it.
Tom # date Mon Mar 5 19:20:29 PST 2001 # apt-get update Hit http://spidermonkey.ximian.com unstable/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Sources Ign http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Sources Ign http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Sources Ign http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release Hit http://spidermonkey.ximian.com unstable/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Sources Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Sources Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Sources Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done # apt-get install adduser Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debconf-tiny eperl libmime-base64-perl libperl5.6 libxml-parser-perl perl perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-debug perl-5.005-suid perl-5.6 perl-base perl-debug perl-modules perl-suid The following packages will be REMOVED: a2ps abiword alien amphetamine amphetamine-data balsa bsdmainutils bug-buddy calc clanbomber clanlib0-common clanlib0-display-x11 clanlib0-input-tty clanlib0-network clanlib0-sound codecommander cons cvs cvs-buildpackage data-dumper debconf debhelper debview dia diald dialdcost eeyes efax eieio elib emacs20 emacs20-el emacsen-common enlightenment enscript eog esound esound-common fetchmail fetchmailconf fttools gaim-gnome gaspell gdm gedit ghex ghostview glade-gnome gmc gnapster gnofin gnomba gnome-applets gnome-apt gnome-bin gnome-card-games gnome-chess gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-games gnome-gataxx gnome-glines gnome-gnibbles gnome-gnobots2 gnome-gnometris gnome-gnomine gnome-gnotravex gnome-gtali gnome-gturing gnome-gv gnome-help gnome-iagno gnome-iconedit gnome-mahjongg gnome-media gnome-network gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-pilot gnome-pilot-conduits gnome-pim gnome-pim-conduits gnome-pm gnome-same-gnome gnome-session gnome-stones gnome-terminal gnome-think gnome-utils gnome-xbill gnomehack gnomeicu gnosamba gnotepad+ gnucash gnumeric gnuplot gpgp grdb gs-aladdin gs-pdfencrypt gtop guitar gv helix-sweetpill hylafax-client icewm-gnome jde leafnode libcapplet0 libdbd-csv-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdigest-md5-perl libesd0 libesd0-dev libft-perl libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libglade-gnome0 libgnome-dev libgnome-perl libgnome-pilot0 libgnome32 libgnomeprint12 libgnomeprint6 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba-dev libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk-imlib-perl libgtk-perl libobgnome0 libpaperg libsdl0 libsdl1.0 libsql-statement-perl libterm-readkey-perl libtext-csv-perl libwine libzvt2 lilo lynx mailcrypt memprof mpage mysql-client mysql-server netleds-applet netpbm pan pdl perl-5.005 perl-tk perlmagick psutils python-elisp python-gnome rep-gtk-gnome sawfish sawfish-gnome sawfish-themes semantic speedbar ssh-askpass-gnome task-games task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games task-gnome-net task-helix-core task-helix-gnome task-python-bundle task-sgml task-sgml-dev task-x-window-system-core tdtd wine wmaker-usersguide-ps xchat-gnome xemacs21 xemacs21-bin xemacs21-mule xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn xemacs21-nomule xemacs21-support xemacs21-supportel xf86setup xserver-xfree86 The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-tiny libperl5.6 perl perl-5.6 perl-debug perl-modules perl-suid 8 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 189 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 4063kB of archives. After unpacking 310MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Epperly [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
