Steve Langasek wrote: > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > exim4-daemon-light ppp pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > exim4-daemon-heavy tasksel > > The following packages will be upgraded: > > base-config base-files > > 2 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > ---------------- > > > This is bogus for two reasons: > > It's not bogus at all; it's a perfectly valid result of installing a package > from one suite while you're running another. You almost certainly need to > be doing a dist-upgrade here first, before trying to install the etch > version of base-config on a sarge system, or else specifying on the > commandline that you want both base-config and exim4-daemon-heavy to be > installed. > > I'm not closing this bug just yet because experience with sarge showed us > that excessive conflicts could be a source of problems when upgrading > between stable releases, so this may warrant further investigation.
base-config has no ppp dependencies, no exim dependencies or conflicts, and its tasksel conflict is appropriate, since it will work without tasksel, but will fail with the old version. I don't understand why apt wanted to change anything except tasksel, but that's what apt's problem resolver debugger is for I guess. -- see shy jo
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