On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:03 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:55, Sam Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > > While debugging #492863 and #493655 I found that 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > > wants to install two obsolete packages. I can't find any combination of > > debugging options to tell me why this is though. > > It is because these 'obsolete packages' are 'Essential: yes' in lenny and > APT installs all essential packages of all archives you have in your source > lists to avoid problems you could have with packages depending on the > functionality of these not installed essential packages as you could install > packages from these archives on your system which need these > essential packages (but do not declare this dependency as they are > essential in this archive) otherwise.
Wow. I think my head just exploded after I managed to parse that sentence, but after I picked up the pieces I think I understand. Thanks for the explanation. > In this case its more or less non-sense as the functionality is still provided > by a package with a different name, but APT can't know this from the > data it has, so it plays safe. > > In short: just remove lenny sources and APT will stop doing this. > (or use the not-recommend not-documented debug option to disable it) > > See #216768 and his friends for further details. > > As we have a lot of bugs discussing this i am closing this one as it > doesn't provide any further value. I hope you can agree. Of course. Thanks again! > > Best regards > > David Kalnischkies -- Sam Morris <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
