Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

2018-07-10 Thread sgarrulo
Hello everyone! I had an installation of debian stable (stretch) which was fully upgraded something like a couple of months ago. Then I passed it to testing (buster). Now I'm facing this situation: * 5031 installed packages * 1292 upgradable packages If I do a normal upgrade, 676 packages are

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

2018-07-11 Thread sgarrulo
On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 10:13 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > If I were experiencing a similar situation, what I'd do is try to > simultaneously install both one of the packages that triggers the > cascade and one or more of the packages which the cascade wants to > remove, and keep adding packages to

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

2018-07-11 Thread sgarrulo
On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 16:29 +0200, Hans wrote: > Please also note, tzhat there is a difference, between using apt (apt-get) > and  > aptitude. > > The way, I prefewr, is using apt-get upgrade (which installs only newer  > packages, and let the problematic ones uninstalled), then using apt-get

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

2018-07-11 Thread sgarrulo
On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 22:00 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > sgarrulo: > > > > I had an installation of debian stable (stretch) which was fully upgraded > > something > > like a couple of months ago. Then I passed it to testing (buster). > > There should not be t

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

2018-07-11 Thread sgarrulo
On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 14:08 +0100, Joe wrote: > > What I do is to temporarily switch from upgrade-system to Synaptic. It > is relatively quick to select a few innocent-looking packages from the > big list, and check that they go through without a problem. After a few > tries, you can see where