Edward C. Jones wrote: > I have a PC with an AMD64 chip in it. I use up-to-date Debian unstable, > "i386" version. Recently synaptic has been holding back "locales". I > discovered that the package "base-config" was the problem. I > successfully upgraded "locales" after I removed "base-config". Is this > problem a bug? Should an empty package hold back anything?
I've not used synaptic much, but in apt in general, an upgrade will not remove packages, while a dist-upgrade will. So you have to do the eqivilant action to a dist-upgrade in synaptic in this situation to upgrade and remove the dummy package. -- see shy jo
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