Debian Bug report logs - #216768
[apt] apt mixes essential flag from all sources

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Affects: aptitude

Reported by: Yann Dirson <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:33:12 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 261411, 544481, 553354, 565775, 594116, 610431

Found in versions 0.5.27, 0.5.4, apt/0.7.20.2+lenny1, apt/0.7.23.1, apt/0.8.10.1

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retitle 216768 Essential status is based on packages, not individual versions
thanks

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:19:09PM +0000, Yann Dirson wrote:

> When pointing to potato and woody, we get a situation where 2 packages (ldso
> and update) lost essential status:
> 
> $ apt-cache show ldso | grep-dctrl -sPackage,Version,Essential -P ldso
> Package: ldso
> Version: 1.9.11-15
> Essential: 
> 
> Package: ldso
> Version: 1.9.11-9
> Essential: yes
> 
> 
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" insists on installing essential packages.  But in the
> light of the present situation, we have a problem to define what to install.
> Apparently APT tags ldso and update as "essential" as a whole... and based
> on versions decides to force upon us installation of the more recent
> non-essential version.
> 
> I don't suggest that the older version be installed, but I'd expect APT to
> take into account the essential status of the eligible version, and so not
> to consider it to be forcedly installed.
> 
> Currently, I just cannot make use of dist-upgrade, unless I accept this old
> obsolete stuff on my machines, or unless I stop refering to potato.

Just take potato out of your sources.list.  It is obsolete, and you will be
much happier.

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