Cameron Hutchison wrote: > I have just attempted a dist-upgrade with bost apt-get and aptitude, > and both of them want to remove gnucash from my system (sid). This seems > to be busted. > > At the moment there is a new gnucash-common (2.2.4-2) but no new gnucash > package to match. Normally that's ok and apt will not upgrade > gnucash-common, but for some reason, this time it wants to upgrade > gnucash-common and remove gnucash to resolve the conflict. > > gnucash-common 2.4.4-2 has the following deps: > Replaces: gnucash (<< 1.8.8-5) > Recommends: gnucash (>= 2.2.4-2) > Conflicts: gnucash (<< 2.2.4-2) > > So, this conflicts with gnucash 2.2.4-1 (currently installed) but does > not replace it. So why would apt remove gnucash? I thought apt was only > meant to remove a package itself when another replaces it. > > Is this a bug in apt? > > BTW. I'm not looking for any solutions here - i'll just wait until > tomorrow or the next day and the problem will go away. I've just never > seem apt try to remove something I want installed without there being a > replacement. > > I can say wrong, but dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade) can remove the packages. Try 'aptitude safe-upgrade'.
-- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.
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