On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:43:56PM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > I've been upgrading my potato installation about every day for months, > and usually only a few packages get upgraded. But earlier today, I > started my usual upgrade process, and pulled down the latest > Packages.gz file for potato/main, and (I use dselect) noticed that > many (thirty or more?) of my installed packages were now marked for > removal. I was afraid to continue with the process, so I didn't ask > dselect to do the installation. > > Is there something actually wrong with that Packages file, or am I > just being paranoid?
The problem is twofold. First, libc6-bin has been folded into libc6, which will remove netscape-base-4 (and the rest that all depend on that) and w3c. The larger part of the problem is that xscreensaver mistakenly depends on perl instead of perl5, which causes perl-5.005 to be removed, which kills many other things. The best solution for the moment is to put libc6, libc6-dev, locales, and xscreensaver on hold until it's all worked out. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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