Package: release-notes Version: 5.0 Release notes in section 4.5.4 suggests to start the upgrade process from Etch to Lenny by first installing the 'apt' using "apt-get install apt".
On my minimal system with a simple web server (just 230 packages) the command wants to install the following 32 extra packages: cpp cpp-4.3 debconf debconf-english gcc-4.3-base gconf2-common libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcups2 libdb4.5 libdb4.6 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libfreetype6 libgconf2-4 libgcrypt11 libglib2.0-0 libgmp3c2 libgnutls26 libgtk2.0-common libidl0 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libldap-2.4-2 libmpfr1ldbl liborbit2 libpcre3 libpixman-1-0 libselinux1 libstdc++6 libts-0.0-0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxml2 libxrender1 locales python2.5-minimal tzdata zlib1g I see no reason why I should end up with gcc and x11 stuff on a web server. BTW, I am pretty sure that when I tried the same command earlier today it wanted to install 59 extra packages including gtk and gnome (libfontconfig1 libgconf2-4 libglade2-0 libgmp3c2 libgnome-keyring0 libgnutls26 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libice6 libidl0 libkeyutils1 libldap-2.4-2 libmpfr1ldbl liborbit2 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpixman-1-0 libsm6 libstartup-notification0 libthai-data libthai0). Not sure why tonight it reduced the number from 59 to 32. Maybe you're fixing it while I am reporting it? What's worse than additional useless packages is that at the same time the "apt-get install apt" wants to remove all crucial packages that power the web server: apache apache-common apt-rdepends apt-utils aptitude debconf-i18n defoma libapache-mod-php4 libapt-pkg-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl librrd2 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl lm-sensors logwatch mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 perl perl-modules php4-mysql sensord tasksel tasksel-data ttf-dejavu It's obvious that if I followed the suggested upgrade path in release notes then I wouldn't have to use the 4.5.6's "aptitude upgrade" and 4.5.7's "aptitude dist-upgrade" as at that time the web server would be basically non-existing (both apache and mysql would have been removed). I have no idea why upgrading 'apt' should install those additional packages, the 'apt-rdepends' didn't show such dependencies on 'apt' so I am confused. Anyway, I believe the suggestion to upgrade 'apt' first is very harmful and I will not follow that upgrade path. Maybe it's a bug that can be fixed in apt itself or in the debian archive? Dunno. For now it seems that workaround is to not upgrade the 'apt' first but simply start with 'apt-get upgrade' (like we had been always doing since ages). Thanks Petr
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