The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > On 2020-07-27 at 08:15, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> <to...@tuxteam.de> writes: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option >>>> there. >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> Thanks, that puts it to rest. >>> >>> As always, if everything else fails, read the instructions. >> >> Thanks to you all. Then, e.g., >> >> 2020-07-23 08:02:37 install liblilv-0-0:i386 <none> 0.24.2~dfsg0-2 >> >> means that liblilv-0-0 has been installed or not on 2020-07-23? From >> dpkg manpage, --log option, as I understand, the field with `<none>' >> should correspond to the installed version, so `<none>' seems to >> state that it is not installed at all...? If so, what does the >> `install' action do there...? > > That log message means that at 08:02:37 on July 23rd, 2020, the computer > went from not having any i386-architecture version of liblv-0-0 > installed at all to having version 0.24.2~dfsg0-2 installed. > > The "<none>" is the version which was installed *before* dpkg took > action. The field after that is the version which was installed *after* > dpkg took action. (Or maybe "was to be"; I don't know what gets logged > in the case where the install fails, et cetera.)
Clear now, thanks... Now, when I try to remove liblilv-0-0, Debian warns me that audacity depends on it: # aptitude purge liblilv-0-0 The following packages will be REMOVED: liblilv-0-0{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 192 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 132 kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: audacity : Depends: liblilv-0-0 (>= 0.16.0~dfsg0) but it is not going to be installed But audacity is installed on my Debian box since months... How can it depend on a package installed a few days ago...? rodolfo