On Dec 10, 2012 7:03 PM, "Jonas Smedegaard" <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > > Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 17:57:18) > > On 12/10/2012 11:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 16:30:19) > > >> the question becomes why the dist-upgrade is trying to remove > > >> libjack0. > > > > > Ohhh: Most likely cause is that libjack-jackd2-dev provides > > > libjack-dev! > > > > > > Why does it do that - it seems plain wrong to me! > > > > In combination with what Felipe pointed out about ia32-libs and > > jackd1, that looks like a plausible reason to me. (The ia32-libs > > factor also probably means that part of the culprit is the holds I > > have in place on a few other packages, which are also interfering with > > parts of the ia32-libs dummy-package transition. As such, this is at > > least partly my own fault, and may not manifest for everyone.) > > I don't want to speculate further: Your system contains 32bit libs and > held back packages, and (discussed below) you use different tools than > those recommended in release notes for your package handling.
In case there is confusion, the above is a supported scenario. Of course,nobody is forced to work on anything they don't want to. > > If you (or someone else) can reproduce this issue from a debootstrap of > purely Debian Squeeze packages, then upgraded using an aptitude command, > I will gain iterest in this again. How could this be done? I suspect piuparts could help, but I'm not particularly knowledgeable about it. > > You are not a minority: Many have been mislead. > > Feel free to use an inferior tool. But note that aptitude is the tool > recommended for upgrading from one release to the next (nowadays, if it > has ever been recommended to use apt-get). For wheezy the recommended tool is apt-get, see http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/
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