On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:31:25PM +0200 or thereabouts, Julio Merino wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about upgrading the system.
> 
> When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I
> had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is
> <really> old, but it's not replaced with libncurses4 or
> libncurses5. So, I simply erased it without any dependency problem.
> 
> My question is that how can all packages with the same problem as this
> be removed between upgrades ? Some are old or obsolete and the system
> doesn't requires them any more, but when you have -a lot- of packages
> installed, it is impossible to find which of this are.
> 
> Thanks.

that's odd.  are you sure you did an update first before doing a dist-upgrade?

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