Package: apt Version: 0.5.27 Severity: normal On upgrading from woody to sarge apt-get dist-upgrade did not upgrade all packages. It seems to fail if it needs to remove old packages which are not needed anymore:
# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gimageview (0.1.9-2 => 0.2.25-1) imagemagick (5.4.4.5-1woody2 => 5.5.7.9-1.1) mc (4.5.55-1.2woody3 => 4.6.0-4.6.1-pre1-3) 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. # apt-get install mc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: mc-common* (4.5.55-1.2woody3) The following packages will be upgraded: mc (4.5.55-1.2woody3 => 4.6.0-4.6.1-pre1-3) 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 1992kB of archives. After unpacking 483kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] # apt-get install gimageview Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: imagemagick (5.5.7.9-1.1) liblcms1 (1.12-2) libmagick5.5.7 (5.5.7.9-1.1) libmng1 (1.0.5-1) Suggested packages: html2ps (1.0b3-3.1) liblcms-utils (1.12-2) The following packages will be REMOVED: liblcms* (1.08-3) libmagick5* (5.4.4.5-1woody2) The following NEW packages will be installed: liblcms1 (1.12-2) libmagick5.5.7 (5.5.7.9-1.1) libmng1 (1.0.5-1) The following packages will be upgraded: gimageview (0.1.9-2 => 0.2.25-1) imagemagick (5.4.4.5-1woody2 => 5.5.7.9-1.1) 2 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 3113kB of archives. After unpacking 3523kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Installation works without problems. cu Uwe -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Clean-Installed "false"; APT::Get ""; APT::Get::Fix-Broken "true"; APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true"; APT::Get::Show-Versions "true"; APT::Get::Purge "true"; 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:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; 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"; Acquire ""; Acquire::http ""; Acquire::http::Proxy "http://http-proxy:8080/";; Acquire::http::Max-Age "3600"; DSelect ""; DSelect::Clean "never"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: * Pin: release a=sarge-proposed-updates,o=Debian,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 750 Package: * Pin: release a=testing-proposed-updates,o=Debian,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 750 Package: * Pin: release a=testing,o=Debian,l=Debian-Security Pin-Priority: 750 Package: * Pin: release a=testing,o=Debian,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 750 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable,o=Debian,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 650 -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- # --- Sarge -------------------------------------------------------------------- deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge-proposed-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib non-free # --- Sid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
