hoary->breezy-preview upgrade test

[Todd Troxell]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:58:49PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Thanks for your upgrade testing and your mail.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:41:14AM -0400, Todd Troxell wrote:
> [..]
> > -I used aptitude, and lots of packages were kept back.  It was annoying to
> > have to perform the upgrade in two stages.  Perhaps there is a way to tell
> > apt not to keep back pacakges, but why should this be necessary during a
> > dist-upgrade?
> 
> It looks like aptitude is getting confused by it's pkgstates. Martin
> Pitt reported a similar problem and moving the pkgstates file away
> magically solved it.
> 
> It looks like it's something similiar to:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317885
> 
> aptitude shouldn't honor it's sticky states during a dist-upgrade but
> it seems to do that nevertheless. 
> 
> Can you still reproduce the problem? If so, I would be interessted in
> seeing if I can reproduce it with your configuration.

I'm unfortunately unable to get back to this machine any time soon.  I
remember that many of the kept-back packages had to do with ruby, and they
included irb from universe.

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Todd Troxell
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