Hi, it happened in an up-to-date Lenny system (apt 0.7.20.2+lenny1, aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1):
$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be upgraded: libkrb53 libpng12-0 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/646kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] _libpng12-0 The following packages are BROKEN: gnuplot-nox libcairo2 libgd2-noxpm librrd4 nagios3 rrdtool The following packages will be REMOVED: libpng12-0{p} The following packages will be upgraded: libkrb53 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/481kB of archives. After unpacking 344kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: rrdtool: Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable nagios3: Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable librrd4: Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable libcairo2: Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable libgd2-noxpm: Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable gnuplot-nox: Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Upgrade the following packages: libpng12-0 [1.2.27-2+lenny2 (stable, now) -> 1.2.27-2+lenny3 (stable)] Score is 61 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] The following packages will be upgraded: libkrb53 libpng12-0 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/646kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor (Reading database ... 31158 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny2 (using .../libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libkrb53 ... Preparing to replace libpng12-0 1.2.27-2+lenny2 (using .../libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpng12-0 ... Setting up libkrb53 (1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny3) ... Setting up libpng12-0 (1.2.27-2+lenny3) ... But the upgrade is successful. -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org