Nigel Henry wrote: > Hi. The latest updates on my Debian Sarge/Etch (on the testing repo) are > wanting to remove. Cheesetracker (libsigc++ deps) , Wavemixer, and Seq24. Now > I use, or more precisely, am trying to use Cheesetracker, so don't want to try aptitude, it explains why it wants to remove packages, I follow unstable and if it wants to remove something I like I just don't upgrade for some time (like now they are upgrading c++ and kde so it's pretty messy), the turmoils are fairly infrequent another options is to compile and install into /opt/package-version, sometime I do that when I really like package and it's not available for debian you'd probably get a better answer on debian-user mailing list erik > lose it. All the upgrades appear to be coming from. > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main > I tried putting this Debian Sarge/Etch install onto the security testing repo, > but it don't want to play. I still have two basic Sarge installs, also on the > same security repo, but aptitude dist-upgrade is only doing minimal upgrades, > and certainly not wanting to remove apps. The ouput of aptitude dist-upgrade > is below, (also tried aptitude upgrade, as sometimes they differ) . Any > comments would be welcome. Nigel. > > Reading task descriptions... Done > Get:1 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages [130kB] > Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages > Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release > Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages > Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release > Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages > Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release > Get:2 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release [110B] > Fetched 130kB in 31s (4172B/s) > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > debian:/home/djmons# aptitude dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: > ca-certificates libaspell15c2 libedit2 libgksuui1.0-1 libgtkspell0 > libnautilus-burn1 libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libssl0.9.8 openssh-client > openssh-server python-gnome2-extras python2.3-gnome2-extras > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > cheesetracker libgksuui1.0-0 libgtkmm2.0-1c102 libsigc++-1.2-5c102 seq24 > wavemixer > The following packages have been kept back: > cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint foomatic-db > foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters foomatic-gui > gimp-help-common gimp-help-en hpijs libcupsimage2 python-foomatic > python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gtk2 python2.3-glade2 python2.3-gtk2 > python2.3-pyorbit x-window-system-core > The following NEW packages will be installed: > ca-certificates libaspell15c2 libedit2 libgksuui1.0-1 libgtkspell0 > libnautilus-burn1 libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libssl0.9.8 openssh-client > openssh-server python-gnome2-extras python2.3-gnome2-extras > The following packages will be REMOVED: > cheesetracker libgksuui1.0-0 libgtkmm2.0-1c102 libsigc++-1.2-5c102 seq24 > wavemixer > The following packages will be upgraded: > apt apt-utils aptitude bash bind9-host bsdgames bsdutils console-common > console-tools cpp cxref debianutils desktop-base dnsutils edict fdutils > fftw3 finger fingerd freeglut3 g++ gcc gksu gnome-session gnome-utils > info language-env libacl1 libattr1 libbind9-0 libconsole libcurl3 > libdns20 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libglib2.0-dev libgpgme11 libgtk1.2 > libgtk1.2-common libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tree-perl libisc9 libisccc0 > libisccfg1 liblwres1 libnautilus-extension1 libnews-nntpclient-perl > libnspr4 libnss3 liboaf0 liboil0.3 liborbit2 libpango1.0-0 > libpango1.0-common libpcap0.8 libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libperl5.8 libpisock8 > libsensors3 libsigc++-1.2-dev libssl-dev libssl0.9.7 > libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl > libtiff-tools libtiff4 libusb-0.1-4 libvte-common libvte4 > lm-sensors-2.4.27-2-386 login menu module-init-tools mount mozilla > mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm nautilus nautilus-data nmap > oaf openssl passwd perl perl-base perl-modules portmap python-extclass > python2.3-extclass python2.3-gnome2 ssh synaptic telnet telnetd > tetex-base tetex-doc texinfo util-linux wavesurfer wget xcdroast xmms > xpdf xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > aptitude-doc-en dbus-1-utils deborphan libgnome2-perl lm-sensors > myspell-en-us nautilus-cd-burner perl-doc unzip x-ttcidfont-conf xli > xloadimage > 111 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 6 to remove and 21 not upgraded. > Need to get 118MB/118MB of archives. After unpacking 2107kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > NO. definately NO. >
