Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
Neil Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anthony Towns wrote:- >> The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are >> mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper, >> instead of the other way around, for some reason. >> >> Easiest way to avoid this

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-06 Thread Neil Booth
Anthony Towns wrote:- > The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are > mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper, > instead of the other way around, for some reason. > > Easiest way to avoid this nastiness is to apt-get remove data-dumper

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:22:22PM -0800, Tom Epperly wrote: > 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. > > # apt-get install adduser > The following packages will be REMOVED: >

apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-05 Thread Tom Epperly
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.o