retitle 216768 Essential status is based on packages, not individual versions thanks
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:19:09PM +0000, Yann Dirson wrote: > 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. Just take potato out of your sources.list. It is obsolete, and you will be much happier. -- - mdz
