Debian Bug report logs - #170522
[libapt-pkg] dist-upgrade fetches new dependencies of held packages

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andras Korn <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: dist-upgrade fetches new dependencies of held packages

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 14:35:11 +0100

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

Hi,

valhalla:root/# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libacl1 libattr1 
The following packages have been kept back
  samba samba-common smbclient smbfs swat 
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/16.4kB of archives. After unpacking 77.8kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

samba is held; the current version does not depend on libacl1 or libattr1,
only the new one does. apt shouldn't install these two packages because the
new version of samba that depends on them isn't going to be installed.

Best regards,

Andrew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux chardonnay 2.4.18-ak1.2.1-chardonnay #1 Thu Apr 11 15:48:31 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-5     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library

-- no debconf information

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Message #30 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Nik A. Melchior" <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: dist-upgrade still fetches unnecessary packages in apt 0.7.6

Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:56:52 -0400

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.6
Followup-For: Bug #170522


found 0.7.6
thanks

I just wanted to ping this old bug because it is still present in the current
version of apt-get.  I primarily run unstable, but I have some boost libraries
installed (and held) from testing.  For example:

apt-cache policy libboost-program-options-dev
libboost-program-options-dev:
  Installed: 1.33.1-10
  Candidate: 1.34.1-2
  Version table:
     1.34.1-2 0
        500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 1.33.1-10 0
        500 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Now, the testing version of this package depends on
libboost-program-options1.33.1, but the unstable version depends on
libboost-program-options1.34.1 .  When I do try a dist-upgrade,
libboost-program-options-dev is correctly listed as "kept back",
libboost-program-options1.33.1 is not mentioned at all, and
libboost-program-options1.34.1 is listed as a NEW package to be installed.
I've checked to ensure that nothing else depends on any of these packages, and
if I allow the dist-upgrade to continue, I can immediately purge
libboost-program-options1.34.1 without any problems.

I haven't included output of get apt-get commands because there is a lot of
unrelated output and I'm quite certain this is the same bug that others have
already diagnosed.

Thanks.

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
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::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
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:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
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";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi";

-- /etc/apt/preferences --


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

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

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

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

#blackdown java
#deb http://www.tux.org/pub/java/debian unstable non-free
# Sun java installer
#deb http://debian.medvantx.com/apt debian/opennms unstable
#deb-src http://debian.medvantx.com/apt debian/opennms unstable

#[g]xmame
#deb http://anarxia.dhis.org:2180/debian ./
#deb-src http://anarxia.dhis.org:2180/debian ./

#mplayer, mencoder
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main

#yzis
#deb ftp://download.yzis.org/yzis ./

#swsusp hibernate script
#now included in unstable???
#deb http://cp.yi.org/apt/hibernate ./

#e16 and e17 CVS
#deb http://soulmachine.net/debian unstable/
#deb-src http://soulmachine.net/debian unstable/
#deb http://gefechtsdienst.de/uman/files/ unstable main
deb http://edevelop.org/debian sid main
deb-src http://edevelop.org/debian sid main

#madwifi-ng
#deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/experimental/ experimental non-free
#deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/experimental/ experimental non-free

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.1-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.2.1-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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