On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:22:22PM -0800, Tom Epperly wrote: > When I try to apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing, it wants to uninstall 189 > packages. This seems like a problem to me, but I am not sure how to report > it. > > # apt-get install adduser > The following packages will be REMOVED: > [...] perl-5.005 [...]
The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper, instead of the other way around, for some reason. Easiest way to avoid this nastiness is to apt-get remove data-dumper first. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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