Say, often a developer upgrades a group of related packages, but they don't hit the mirrors at the same time. This causes apt-get dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade to remove the older parts instead of holding back for the newer parts. One must use apt-get upgrade for the many days the condition persists.
Apparently the problem is in the build system for different architectures. It seems some simple enhancement somewhere in the chain of processes from the developer down thru apt would alleviate the problem. The goal would be the sid user could then use apt-get dselect-upgrade or dist-upgrade without the risk of removing packages just because one part of their group hit the mirror first. I.e., instead of just saying that sid is a man's world, not for kids, it would be better to see what enhancement could be made to avoid the problem. Maybe "Package Group" is a new field needed in a package header? Maybe some additional general apt logic switch? Some examples are transmission #495679, and gimp-data zapping gimp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]