• Bug#266972: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install a new unrequested pac

    From Vincent Lefevre@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 01:30:12 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: apt
    Version: 0.5.27
    Severity: normal

    ay:~> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -s
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Calculating Upgrade... Done
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libmusicbrainz4
    The following packages have been kept back:
    hwinfo inn2 inn2-inews libgnome2-java libgtk2-java straw zinf zinf-extras
    zinf-plugin-alsa zinf-plugin-arts zinf-plugin-esound
    The following packages will be upgraded:
    libtiff3g libtiff3g-dev
    2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
    Inst libmusicbrainz4 (2.1.1-3 Debian:testing)
    Inst libtiff3g-dev [3.5.7-2] (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing) []
    Inst libtiff3g [3.5.7-2] (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing)
    Conf libmusicbrainz4 (2.1.1-3 Debian:testing)
    Conf libtiff3g (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing)
    Conf libtiff3g-dev (3.6.1-1 Debian:testing)

    One can see that "apt-get dist-upgrade" wants to install the new
    package libmusicbrainz4, though libtiff3g-dev and libtiff3g don't
    depend on it. There's no reason to install an orphaned library.

    Note: zinf depends on libmusicbrainz4, but it will not be installed
    anyway.

    -- Package-specific info:

    -- apt-config dump --

    APT "";
    APT::Architecture "powerpc";
    APT::Build-Essential "";
    APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
    Dir "/";
    Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
    Dir::State::lists "lists/";
    Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
    Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
    Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
    Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
    Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
    Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
    Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
    Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
    Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
    Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
    Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
    Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
    Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
    Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
    Dir::Bin "";
    Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
    Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
    DPkg "";
    DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
    DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 || exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty );
    fi";
    DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Tools "";
    DPkg::Tools::Options "";
    DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
    DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
    DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";

    -- /etc/apt/preferences --

    Package: *
    Pin: release a=stable
    Pin-Priority: 900

    Package: *
    Pin: release a=testing
    Pin-Priority: 900

    Package: *
    Pin: release a=unstable
    Pin-Priority: 200

    -- /etc/apt/sources.list --

    # /etc/apt/sources.list

    deb file:///usr/local/deb/ ./

    deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

    deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

    # $Id: sources.list 4042 2004-07-28 10:25:03Z lefevre $

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
    Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-powerpc
    Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

    Versions of packages apt depends on:
    ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
    ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

    -- no debconf information


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