On Monday 09 May 2016 22:37:06 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable > > proposition for the desktop. > > True. The software versions are obviously quite old, and not all > packages are supported[1]. Previous LTS releases did not support > graphical web browsers; I don't know whether that is the case for wheezy > LTS too. > > > I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers. In > > Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by aptitude? > > No, obsolete packages such as openjdk-6-* are left untouched[2]. It is > up to you to remove them. > > 1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_for_unsupported_packages > 2: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.h >tml#obsolete
You have shown that they are not removed in LTS, which I have just discovered, and that they are not removed on upgrade to the next version. But, surely, normally when a newer version is installed automatically by aptitude, the older one is removed, unless you have been using aptitude safe-upgrade, when nothing is removed? (Or, of course, unless you have got it pinned?) Lisi
