Like the reporters of #531002 and #557209 I was seeing apticron continually reporting that the dash and diffutils packages needed to be upgraded. I figured out what is going on:
1) The systems seeing this also have unstable listed in sources.list but have it pinned to a low priority. 2) diffutils and dash are "Priority: required"/"Essential: yes" in unstable, but weren't in lenny. 3) apt-get dist-upgrade thinks they should be pulled in (aptitude dist-upgrade ignores them) This appears to be the same as #544481. For apticron: can this be worked around or maybe just document ways the user can prevent it from happening? For apt-get: I suppose this could be seen as either a bug or feature, if the latter then please leave open and tag wontfix (and make aptitude consistent). Regardless of the default, it might be nice to have a command-line switch that controls the behavior so that things like apticron could specify what they want. -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
