Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal When pointing to potato and woody, we get a situation where 2 packages (ldso and update) lost essential status:
$ apt-cache show ldso | grep-dctrl -sPackage,Version,Essential -P ldso Package: ldso Version: 1.9.11-15 Essential: Package: ldso Version: 1.9.11-9 Essential: yes "apt-get dist-upgrade" insists on installing essential packages. But in the light of the present situation, we have a problem to define what to install. Apparently APT tags ldso and update as "essential" as a whole... and based on versions decides to force upon us installation of the more recent non-essential version. I don't suggest that the older version be installed, but I'd expect APT to take into account the essential status of the eligible version, and so not to consider it to be forcedly installed. Currently, I just cannot make use of dist-upgrade, unless I accept this old obsolete stuff on my machines, or unless I stop refering to potato. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux winnipeg 2.4.22+nfs-ngroups+preempt+lowlatency-station #1 mer oct 8 17:38:11 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Développeur Debian
