Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Trixie on an AMD64 system. > > Yesterday after doing my usual morning full-upgrade, I rebooted because > there were a lot of Plasma-related updates. When I logged in, I found I > wasn't connected to my file server shares. I eventually traced this down > to a lack of nfs software on my workstation. Reinstalling nfs-client > fixed this. > > I guess I need to pay closer attention to what autoremove tells me it's > going to remove, but I'm confused as to why it would remove nfs-client & > related packages. > > This follows a couple of previous full-upgrades that were having > problems. The first, a few days ago, was stopped by gdb not being > available. However, it installed fine manually (apt install gdb). I > don't see why apt full-upgrade didn't do this automatically as a > dependency for whatever package needed it. > > The second was blocked by the lack of a lcl-qt5 or lcl-gtk5 library. I > can see this as legitimate because it looks like you don't need both so > the package manager lets you decide which you want. > > Not looking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've > encountered lately.
the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted. i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are many Mate packages that would be removed. songbird