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On Friday, October 05, 2018 07:25:29 AM Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:03:13AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > Can someone describe (or point to) a description of how dist-upgrade
> > determines the more important app?  (Oh, I'm guessing it has to do with
> > the whatever it is called label on each package, something like
> > required, recommended, ... (I may be using the wrong words).  Supposed
> > dist-upgrade has to choose between two packages that have the same
> > label?
> 
> I'm afraid I lost you here.
> Is 'more important' refers to dependency alternatives? Package
> priorities? Something else?
> By 'label' did you mean 'Tag' field or something else?
> 
> Let's try to do it this way.
> Execute 'apt show bash', observe there result.
> Ask your question once more, but this time use 'apt show bash' as a
> guide.

Thanks for your reply!

Ok, I ran 
<quote>
root@s31:~# apt show bash
Package: bash
Version: 4.3-11+deb8u1
Essential: yes
Installed-Size: 5,130 kB
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Replaces: bash-completion (<< 20060301-0), bash-doc (<= 2.05-1)
Depends: base-files (>= 2.1.12), debianutils (>= 2.15)
Pre-Depends: dash (>= 0.5.5.1-2.2), libc6 (>= 2.15), libncurses5 (>=
5.5-5~), libtinfo5
Recommends: bash-completion (>= 20060301-0)
Suggests: bash-doc
Conflicts: bash-completion (<< 20060301-0)
Homepage: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::shell, role::program, scope::utility,
 suite::gnu, uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: shells
Priority: required
Download-Size: 1,172 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
Description: GNU Bourne Again SHell
 Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes
 commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also
 incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
 .
 Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the
 IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
 .
 The Programmable Completion Code, by Ian Macdonald, is now found in
 the bash-completion package.
</quote>

I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question.  I'm also surprised / 
confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority: required" -- I 
presume that is not redundant information, but at first glance it seems so.

Anyway, I am just "fishing" for information on how dist-upgrade decides which 
package is more important to install (when faced with such  a decision).

I suppose I can live without knowing that ;-)

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      More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-04 16:10 +0200
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                Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-05 13:10 +0200
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                Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-05 21:50 +0200
                Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-05 22:20 +0200
                Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-05 23:40 +0200
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