Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.1 Severity: normal I had the problem "a long time" ago. After upgrade to experimental it was gone. Now the message comes again.
apt-get -uVf dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: upstart (0.6.6-1) The following NEW packages will be installed: sysvinit (2.88dsf-13.1) 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 120 kB of archives. After this operation, 442 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "true"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Acquire ""; APT::Acquire::Translation "environment"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ""; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: 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http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main non-free contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main non-free contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main non-free contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main non-free contrib deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ sid main non-free deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ testing main non-free deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ stable main non-free deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org experimental main # Unofficial Maintainers (sid/unstable snapshots) # Note: This repository is not yet populated. #deb http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ sid-snapshots main contrib non-free restricted #deb-src http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ sid-snapshots main contrib non-free restricted # Unofficial Maintainers (sid/unstable releases) deb http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ sid main contrib non-free restricted deb-src http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ sid main contrib non-free restricted # Unofficial Maintainers (squeeze/testing releases) # Note: This repository is not yet populated. #deb http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ squeeze main contrib non-free restricted #deb-src http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ squeeze main contrib non-free restricted # Unofficial Maintainers (lenny/stable releases) deb http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ lenny main contrib non-free restricted deb-src http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ lenny main contrib non-free restricted #deb http://buildd.emdebian.org/debian/ lenny main #deb-src http://buildd.emdebian.org/debian/ lenny main #deb http://buildd.emdebian.org/debian/ testing main #deb-src http://buildd.emdebian.org/debian/ testing main #deb http://buildd.emdebian.org/debian/ unstable main #deb-src http://buildd.emdebian.org/debian/ unstable main #deb http://www.emdebian.org/crush/ sid main #deb http://www.emdebian.org/crush/ squeeze main #deb http://www.emdebian.org/crush/ lenny main #deb-src http://www.emdebian.org/crush/ sid main #deb-src http://www.emdebian.org/crush/ squeeze main #deb-src http://www.emdebian.org/crush/ lenny main deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ testing main deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ lenny main deb http://www.emdebian.org/cross-repo/ testing main deb http://www.emdebian.org/cross-repo/ unstable main -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.11-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-8 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.6-20110116-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.6-20110116-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.5.dfsg-1 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.8 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.70 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org