Package: apt Version: 0.5.27 Severity: normal ay:~> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libmusicbrainz4 The following packages have been kept back: hwinfo inn2 inn2-inews libgnome2-java libgtk2-java straw zinf zinf-extras zinf-plugin-alsa zinf-plugin-arts zinf-plugin-esound The following packages will be upgraded: libtiff3g libtiff3g-dev 2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Inst libmusicbrainz4 (2.1.1-3 Debian:testing) Inst libtiff3g-dev [3.5.7-2] (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing) [] Inst libtiff3g [3.5.7-2] (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing) Conf libmusicbrainz4 (2.1.1-3 Debian:testing) Conf libtiff3g (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing) Conf libtiff3g-dev (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing)
One can see that "apt-get dist-upgrade" wants to install the new package libmusicbrainz4, though libtiff3g-dev and libtiff3g don't depend on it. There's no reason to install an orphaned library. Note: zinf depends on libmusicbrainz4, but it will not be installed anyway. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "powerpc"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 || exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty ); fi"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; DPkg::Post-Invoke ""; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 200 -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- # /etc/apt/sources.list deb file:///usr/local/deb/ ./ deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free # $Id: sources.list 4042 2004-07-28 10:25:03Z lefevre $ -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-powerpc Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
