Package: apt Severity: important I have cron-apt invoking apt-get dist-upgrade nightly My /etc/apt/sources.list references the `stable' distribution only. Two weeks ago the nightly upgrade picked up the switch to etch. In the course of this upgrade it removed the xlockmore package, breaking my X environment which uses the xlock program. The xlockmore maintainer has explained that that package is not available in etch; presumably this is why apt-get decided to remove it.
I believe it is a bug for apt-get to have removed a selected package for which there was no replacement package. (Had I not noticed that xlock failed to invoke, I might have left my X desktop unlocked, so I considered flagging this as a security bug.) I would not object to the xlockmore package being removed in favour of some superseding package that provides xlock in its place, but in this case there was no replacement. It seems to me that this is a failure to keep the `stable' distribution stable. My /etc/apt/sources.list is deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main The cron-apt output for the etch upgrade begins thus: CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Fri Aug 17 04:00:01 UTC 2007 CRON-APT SLEEP: 481, Fri Aug 17 04:08:02 UTC 2007 CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download CRON-APT LINE: dist-upgrade -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: base-config gcj-3.3 gcj-3.4 lbxproxy libdps1 libgcj5-dev libgmp3 libmodplug0 libnewt0.51 libxft1 netkit-inetd ntp-server proxymngr xfree86-common xfwp xlibs xlockmore xserver-common The following NEW packages will be installed: busybox cpp-4.1 cupsys-common debian-archive-keyring dmidecode dpkg-dev I note that this lists several packages being removed, among them xlockmore. I was under the impression that I was using most of these packages, but evidently (with the exception of xlockmore) they have been suitably replaced. For example, I run ntpd, which presumably used to involve the ntp-server package, but now appears to be supplied by the ntp package. -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
