Re: apt-get upgrade problem

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: apt-get upgrade problem
Date	2017-06-26 17:20 +0200
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On 2017-06-26, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 09:01:30AM +0000, Curt wrote:
>> Because of the pedagogical interest of the thing, for those who come
>> after us, for posterity's sake, I wanted the OP to give us a complete
>> description of what occurred, rather than a misleading one (for we are
>> left wondering why FF was held back in the first place, if an 'apt-get
>> install' simply "went ahead and installed it."
>
> In stretch, the upgrade from firefox-esr 45.x to 52.x requires a
> new Depends: package, named libjsoncpp1.

Right. Same here on Wheezy. The name of the package escaped me. Actually
it was rhetorical wondering I was doing up there. Sorry if that was
unclear.

<snip exhaustive description for posterity absent from the OP's account,
thank-you Mr. Wooledge>

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apt-get upgrade problem Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2017-06-22 01:40 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2017-06-22 01:50 +0200
    Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-22 09:40 +0200
    Re: apt-get upgrade problem Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2017-06-22 21:20 +0200
      Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-22 21:50 +0200
        Re: apt-get upgrade problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-25 02:40 +0200
          Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-25 11:10 +0200
            Re: apt-get upgrade problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-26 15:00 +0200
              Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-26 17:20 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 03:30 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-22 05:20 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 08:40 +0200

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