retitle 294718 dist-upgrade pulls in caudium merge 294718 297702 thanks On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:27:27PM +0100, Jørgen Tjernø wrote: > When I do apt-get dist-upgrade, it tells me: > The following NEW packages will be installed: > caudium caudium-modules caudium-php4 libgmp3 libtiff4 libttf2 libzzip-0-12 > pike7.2 pike7.2-crypto pike7.2-gz pike7.2-image > The following packages will be upgraded: > grub libapache-mod-php4 php4-common php4-gd
> Now, apt-get upgrade tells me this: > The following packages have been kept back: > libapache-mod-php4 php4-common php4-gd > The following packages will be upgraded: > grub > And last, apt-get dselect-upgrade yields: (which is the behaviour I'd expect > from dist-upgrade, to be honest) > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libzzip-0-12 > The following packages will be upgraded: > grub libapache-mod-php4 php4-common php4-gd > Now, I've got 4.3.10-2 of libapache-mod-php4 installed, and apt-cache show > php4 gives: > Depends: libapache-mod-php4 (>= 4:4.3.10-8) | libapache2-mod-php4 (>= > 4:4.3.10-8) | caudium-php4 (>= 4:4.3.10-8), php4-common (>= 4:4.3.10-8) > So, I can understand it wanting to upgrade libapache-mod-php4. But why does > apt-get dist-upgrade want to pull in TWO of the ORed dependencies? > (cadium-php4 and libapache-mod-php4). Since it does that, it also tries to > pull in whatever cadium-php4 depends on, so I suddenly get a full setup > of cadium on my system, when all I want is apache 1.3.33 with php4! :-) > I assume this is a bug, not certain wether the problem is in the > php4-package or in apt-get itself. Asked around on the debian irc channel, > and they seemed to believe it was a bug. I'm able to reproduce this in a chroot if I have only libapache-mod-php4, php4-common, and php4-gd installed, without installing the php4 package. If I install php4, apt-get dist-upgrade works sensibly. aptitude dist-upgrade also works sensibly with or without the php4 package being installed. It appears that caudium is being pulled in to satisfy php4-gd's dependency on phpapi-20020918-zts. I'll poke around a bit, but I doubt that this is fixable on the PHP side; it does appear to be a bug in apt-get. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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