On 2016-09-24 15:48:15 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two > > packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable > > this morning: > > > perl 5.24.1~rc3-2 > > perl-base 5.24.1~rc3-2 > > > I grab AMD64 packages in case that makes a difference AND I have other > > larger packages still waiting to be upgraded, as well.A total of > > almost 400MB the last couple days! Am on dialup and have to be > > selective about the order in which packages are upgraded in between > > taking the opportunity to actually participate online. > > > Yes, a bug has been filed, just minutes ago, and only against Perl > > at this time. > > Why would you think this is a bug? This is just a normal Perl-API > transition, the packages need to be rebuild against the new perl to be > compatible. > > This _is_ Unstable after all, things like this happen all the time.
Things like that should not happen. But this is not a bug in the perl packages. This is a misfeature of apt / aptitude, which want to remove packages instead of holding the new packages (well, AFAIK, aptitude has improved, but is still not perfect). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
