[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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