On Du, 30 mar 14, 10:57:37, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:42:52 +0200 > Nemeth Gyorgy <fri...@freemail.hu> wrote: > > Hello Nemeth, > > >Are you sure? > >When the kernel version number changes, the > >linux-image-<versionnumber>-amd64.deb will be a new package. > > Yes. Stephen said "..assuming of course the meta package is > installed." He didn't write that without reason.
The meta package is upgrade, but the actual linux-image-<version> package is not. Without dist-upgrade apt will just hold the meta package back, because it can't be upgraded without installing a new package. You might be thinking of 'aptitude safe-upgrade' which does indeed install new dependencies. Hope this explains, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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