Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal
On an etch box with X, KDE and assorted office-type applications installed, I followed the sequence of steps outlined on d-d-a [1]: aptitude update && aptitude upgrade sed -i 's/etch/lenny/g' /etc/apt/sources.list aptitude update aptitude install dpkg aptitude So far, so good. The next step is the problematic one. aptitude full-upgrade: xserver-xorg-video-all is "broken" as the individual video drivers are "not installable". This leads to 95 other packages being removed including a lot of graphical ones, but not all of xorg or kde. Saying "n" twice to get aptitude to look for a different solution causes it to come up with what seems like a more sensible solution. aptitude full-upgrade xserver-xorg-video-all+ Hinting at the installation of the video drivers (or indeed just the video driver package you need) goes straight to the same sensible solution as above. apt-get dist-upgrade Using etch's apt-get for the upgrade wants to remove 15 packages, none of which I'm that attached to so it would also be a "sensible" solution to the upgrade. (for the record: fftw3 libdiscover1 libft-perl libgfortran1 libgsl0 libgssapi2 libldap2 libpci2 libperl5.8 librpm4 libsasl2 libstlport4.6c2 selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted tetex-doc xserver-xorg-video-newport) Perhaps this is as you would expect, but it's pretty unnerving being presented with a long list of broken packages and removals. Some degree of documentation of this would be good in that case. Following this, the upgrade completed successfully. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00000.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (100, 'stable'), (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]