Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.21 All I know is I like to use one of your scripts, checkbashisms.
All was fine, until today, for the privilege of continuing to use this tiny script, I "Need to get 37.4MB of archives". Seen on apt-get dselect-upgrade, dist-ugrade, but not plain upgrade. # http_proxy= apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dselect-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Starting Starting 2 Investigating gettext Package gettext has broken dep on libgomp1 Considering libgomp1 1 as a solution to gettext 4 Holding Back gettext rather than change libgomp1 Investigating intltool-debian Package intltool-debian has broken dep on gettext Considering gettext 4 as a solution to intltool-debian 2 Holding Back intltool-debian rather than change gettext Investigating g++ Package g++ has broken dep on g++-4.2 Considering g++-4.2 1 as a solution to g++ 1 Holding Back g++ rather than change g++-4.2 Investigating libparse-debianchangelog-perl Package libparse-debianchangelog-perl has broken dep on libclass-accessor-perl Considering libclass-accessor-perl 1 as a solution to libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1 Holding Back libparse-debianchangelog-perl rather than change libclass-accessor-perl Investigating po-debconf Package po-debconf has broken dep on gettext Considering gettext 4 as a solution to po-debconf 0 Holding Back po-debconf rather than change gettext Investigating lintian Package lintian has broken dep on gettext Considering gettext 4 as a solution to lintian -1 Holding Back lintian rather than change gettext Investigating build-essential Package build-essential has broken dep on g++ Considering g++ 1 as a solution to build-essential -1 Holding Back build-essential rather than change g++ Investigating debhelper Package debhelper has broken dep on po-debconf Considering po-debconf 0 as a solution to debhelper 2 Holding Back debhelper rather than change po-debconf Investigating equivs Package equivs has broken dep on debhelper Considering debhelper 2 as a solution to equivs -2 Holding Back equivs rather than change debhelper Done Entering ResolveByKeep The following NEW packages will be installed: cvs cvs-buildpackage debian-keyring debian-maintainers diffstat fakeroot html2text libauthen-sasl-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libfcgi-perl libfile-basedir-perl libfile-desktopentry-perl libfile-remove-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libmail-box-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libobject-realize-later-perl libossp-uuid-perl libossp-uuid15 libparse-debcontrol-perl libpod-coverage-perl libpod-escapes-perl libpod-simple-perl libsoap-lite-perl libterm-size-perl libtest-pod-perl libtie-ixhash-perl libuser-identity-perl libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-sax-expat-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl patchutils wdiff The following packages will be upgraded: apt-file aspell bsdgames devscripts exif gucharmap guile-1.8-libs libaspell15 libdvbpsi4 libgail-common libgail18 libglib2.0-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgtkhtml2-0 libgucharmap6 libhunspell-1.1-0 libid3-3.8.3c2a libidn11 liblockfile1 libltdl3 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libsmbclient libsqlite3-0 libusb-0.1-4 linux-sound-base mtools ncurses-base ncurses-bin openssh-client openssh-server procps reportbug txt2man whois zlib-bin zlib1g 38 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 32.0MB/37.4MB of archives. After this operation, 39.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. But then oddly, first doing an upgrade before a dselect-upgrade avoids the massive download. # http_proxy= apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: doc-rfc-0001-0999 doc-rfc-1000-1999 doc-rfc-2000-2999 doc-rfc-3000-3999 doc-rfc-experimental doc-rfc-fyi-bcp doc-rfc-misc doc-rfc-old-std doc-rfc-std doc-rfc-std-proposed scim-chewing The following packages will be upgraded: apt-file aspell bsdgames devscripts exif gucharmap guile-1.8-libs libaspell15 libdvbpsi4 libgail-common libgail18 libglib2.0-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgtkhtml2-0 libgucharmap6 libhunspell-1.1-0 libid3-3.8.3c2a libidn11 liblockfile1 libltdl3 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libsmbclient libsqlite3-0 libusb-0.1-4 linux-sound-base mtools ncurses-base ncurses-bin openssh-client openssh-server procps reportbug txt2man whois zlib-bin zlib1g 38 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 8145kB/11.8MB of archives. After this operation, 1393kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? # http_proxy= apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dselect-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Entering ResolveByKeep 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Odd odd odd. Please reassign to the package to blame. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]