[H-GEN] New Debian Stable Release

Matthew Franklin matheist76 at westnet.com.au
Mon Feb 16 14:42:02 EST 2009


Adrian Sutton wrote:
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> 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
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Yep just seen that. 5.0.




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