Bug#216768: apt: Confirmed under Lenny with several sources and pinning

2009-11-02 Thread Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Followup-For: Bug #216768 My APT setup includes sources from Lenny (stable) and Squeeze (testing), pinned so that only certain packages get pulled from testing. I have ``apticron`` installed and since I made the mixed setup with pinning, it reports that

Bug#216768: apt: Confirmed under Lenny with several sources and pinning

2009-11-02 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Am Montag, den 02.11.2009, 09:56 + schrieb Ivan Vilata i Balaguer: Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Followup-For: Bug #216768 My APT setup includes sources from Lenny (stable) and Squeeze (testing), pinned so that only certain packages get pulled from testing. I have

Bug#216768: apt: Confirmed under Lenny with several sources and pinning

2009-11-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi all, On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: Thanks, Raphael. This is clearly a problem in apt. Funny, i think it is a feature and i will try to describe why now. :) (I want to do it earlier, but i somehow managed to forget it...) 2009/11/2 Ivan Vilata i Balaguer i...@selidor.net: I have

Bug#544481: Bug#216768: apt: Confirmed under Lenny with several sources and pinning

2009-11-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-11-02 16:40:00 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: The message says: This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! Well, this was The following essential packages will be removed. I found confusing. So it is already open to the fact that it is maybe wrong to

Bug#216768: apt: Confirmed under Lenny with several sources and pinning

2009-11-02 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, David: On Monday 02 November 2009 16:40:00 David Kalnischkies wrote: Hi all, [...] The real bug here showed by diff (and a few other before) is therefore something like this: New essential package A replaces old essential package B. (Package B is now a transitional package to A.) The

Bug#216768: apt: Confirmed under Lenny with several sources and pinning

2009-11-02 Thread Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
David Kalnischkies (el 2009-11-02 a les 16:40:00 +0100) va dir:: A user who mixed sources very likely mixes also packages. As a package doesn't need to depend on essential packages, apt tries to install in a dist(ribution)-upgrade ALL essential packages it can find in all sources to protect