On 2014/12/11 12:48 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
The upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to R14 includes a lot of package "renames".
After a clean i386 Wheezy 3.5.13.2 install of kde-trinity is upgraded to R14 RC2, an "apt-get autoremove" removes 48 transitional dummy packages. This is good.
However there are still (roughly) 15 transitional dummy packages whose descriptions say they can be safely uninstalled. All that is preventing them from being uninstalled is two meta packages - kde-trinity and kde-core-trinity. And so the conscientious sysadmin removes the two unnecessary meta packages and the (roughly) 15 remaining transitional dummy packages.
And the next "apt-get autoremove" eats 290 packages which is most of Trinity.
If you had less than a normal kde-trinity installation of 3.5.13.2 this problem hits you much sooner and without uninstalling any meta packages.
What to do? Something in the release notes?
--Mike
In the installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, it is recommended to use aptitude instead of apt-get to upgrade. It seems that using apt-get does not resolve all dependencies correctly (see bug 2245 on bugszilla).
Do you have a change to retry using aptitude?
Cheers Michele