On 05 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them > > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with > > fewer removals. > > In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to remove them, > not merely mentioning that they were no longer required. > > If I misunderstood and the OP meant the former it is most likely that > his new package requires the newest version of some library. Aptitude > will then propose the removal of anything that (directly or indirectly) > depends on that library but has not been upgraded to use the new > version. This is common in Sid and it is the reason packages do not > migrate to Testing until all their dependencies can be satisfied there. > > One can ask Aptitude to propose some other solutions, or just wait a > few days and try again. > -- > John Hasler > >
Yes, that's right; requests to install any package produced a warning that all these packages would be removed. But the problem has gone away now. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605172438.gf23...@acampbell.org.uk