On 25-Apr-2005, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > Hmmm, can you send me the output of > "/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -s dist-upgrade" ? > It could be that something being upgraded now depends on shellutils.
It seems apt believes they're requested to be installed (and no other requested actions): ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following NEW packages will be installed: shellutils textutils 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst shellutils (5.2.1-2 Debian:testing) Conf shellutils (5.2.1-2 Debian:testing) Inst textutils (5.2.1-2 Debian:testing) Conf textutils (5.2.1-2 Debian:testing) ===== but dpkg doesn't agree: ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l {shell,text}utils | tail -n 2 pn shellutils <none> (no description available) pn textutils <none> (no description available) ===== aptitude also shows that there are no upgradable packages that depend on those two packages: ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search ~U~Dshellutils [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search ~U~Dtextutils ===== -- \ "Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto | `\ someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I | _o__) have to laugh, because what is that thing?" -- Jack Handey | Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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