Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:30:07PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > AAARGH!!!! > > > > > > You didn't say that these few changes would cause a dist-upgrade to > > > remove half the system. > > > > > > There's no "Provides: perl5" in the transitional perl-5.6 package!!! > > > > Package: perl > > Provides: perl5, data-dumper > > > > The upgrade works fine here. > > polya:~ # apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > [...] > 56 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 93 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > Need to get 47.3MB of archives. After unpacking 109MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > polya:~ # > > But interestingly, if I use dselect with the APT backend, everything > goes OK. I'm not sure where the descrepancy lies. (dselect wants to > install perl, but apt-get dist-upgrade on its own doesn't.)
I've had something similar happen to me a while back which turned out to be caused by dselect looking at Recommends: and Suggests: as well, whereas apt only looked at Depends: and Pre-Depends: Any chance you are seeing the same behaviour? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
