Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this. It looks to me like the problem is this:
The ntp packages used to be split into ntp, ntp-simple, ntp-server, and ntp-refclock. A few versions ago, they were merged into just ntp. You explicitly installed ntp-simple, so ntp was considered to be automatically installed. When you tried to just "upgrade", aptitude kept the ntp packages back because ntp-simple had no candidate for installation (since it had been removed), while upgrading ntp would break ntp-simple. The more aggressive "dist-upgrade" upgraded both packages, then noticed that ntp was no longer installed and removed it. This is not ideal behavior, but it is expected. In the particular case you're looking at, the removed ntp packages have been re-created as dummy upgrade packages, so it shouldn't happen again (until the dummies are removed in a future release). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
