On Mon, 31 Oct 2016, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > The upgrade from jessie-backports to stretch went perfectly. > > One thing I noticed is that when installing gettext from your repo using > `apt install gettext`, it did not include the updated versions of the > related libraries (autopoint gettext-base libasprintf-dev libasprintf0c2 > libgettextpo-dev libgettextpo0). Only when I did `apt upgrade` did it > then upgrade those libs.
That happens because gettext does not really depend on any of those packages (except gettext-base, where the dependency is not versioned), so it's normal and expected (if your package required some specific version of autopoint, for example, you would use a versioned build-depends on it). BTW: The backport has just been accepted, you can now install it from the official Debian archives. Thanks a lot.
