[H-GEN] New Debian Stable Release

[Adrian Sutton]

Hi all,
My routine security update this morning descended into a bit of an  
issue as aptitude wanted to update a huge number of packages and wound  
up with unresolvable conflicts.  Apparently Debian released an update  
on Valentine's day that I wasn't aware of...

For now, I've switched my sources list from "stable" to "etch" and  
gotten the sane list of security updates I was expecting, but it looks  
like I need to plan an upgrade cycle soon.  The release notes at http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ 
  seem to be fairly generic upgrade advice which I will study more  
carefully etc before upgrading etc.

The point of this email though is to see if any of our local Debian  
experts are aware of and can give me pointers on the dependency  
problems I initially ran into.  Aptitude reported:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libsasl2: Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8) but  
2.1.22.dfsg1-23 is to be installed.
   libperl5.8: Depends: perl-base (= 5.8.8-11.1+lenny1) but 5.10.0-19  
is to be installed.
   libcurl3-openssl-dev: Depends: libcurl3 (= 7.15.5-1etch1) but  
7.18.2-8 is to be installed.

(Yes, I did run aptitude dist-upgrade instead of just aptitude upgrade).

Cheers,

Adrian Sutton
http://www.symphonious.net