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On Dec 10, 2012 7:03 PM, "Jonas Smedegaard" <<a href="mailto:dr@jones.dk">dr@jones.dk</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 17:57:18)<br>
> > On 12/10/2012 11:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 16:30:19)<br>
> > >> the question becomes why the dist-upgrade is trying to remove<br>
> > >> libjack0.<br>
> ><br>
> > > Ohhh: Most likely cause is that libjack-jackd2-dev provides<br>
> > > libjack-dev!<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Why does it do that - it seems plain wrong to me!<br>
> ><br>
> > In combination with what Felipe pointed out about ia32-libs and<br>
> > jackd1, that looks like a plausible reason to me. (The ia32-libs<br>
> > factor also probably means that part of the culprit is the holds I<br>
> > have in place on a few other packages, which are also interfering with<br>
> > parts of the ia32-libs dummy-package transition. As such, this is at<br>
> > least partly my own fault, and may not manifest for everyone.)<br>
><br>
> I don't want to speculate further: Your system contains 32bit libs and<br>
> held back packages, and (discussed below) you use different tools than<br>
> those recommended in release notes for your package handling.</p>
<p>In case there is confusion, the above is a supported scenario. Of course,nobody is forced to work on anything they don't want to.</p>
<p>><br>
> If you (or someone else) can reproduce this issue from a debootstrap of<br>
> purely Debian Squeeze packages, then upgraded using an aptitude command,<br>
> I will gain iterest in this again.</p>
<p>How could this be done? I suspect piuparts could help, but I'm not particularly knowledgeable about it.<br></p>
<p>><br>
> You are not a minority: Many have been mislead.<br>
><br>
> Feel free to use an inferior tool. Â But note that aptitude is the tool<br>
> recommended for upgrading from one release to the next (nowadays, if it<br>
> has ever been recommended to use apt-get).</p>
<p>For wheezy the recommended tool is apt-get, see <br>
<a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/">http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/</a></p>