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Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages!

From	The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages!
Date	2018-07-15 16:30 +0200
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On 2018-07-15 at 10:09, David Wright wrote:

> On Sun 15 Jul 2018 at 07:49:36 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> be warned: Wheh you do apt full-upgrade,
> 
> You're in testing: what are you "full-upgrade"-ing to and why?

To testing, of course.

Just because you're running testing doesn't mean the package versions
you have installed are the ones currently available from testing. If you
last upgraded more than about a day ago, there's a very good chance that
one or more of your installed packages has a newer version available in
testing now.

Running upgrade commands on at least an intermittent basis is just good,
normal practice for tracking testing.

That said, the nature of testing does sometimes mean that the result is
not entirely stable and consistent, so occasionally you get undesired
package-removal results such as the ones described in this thread. The
solution is generally to either specify explicitly (on the upgrade
command line) which packages you want to retain, or wait until whatever
dependency-resolution situation led to the problem gets resolved.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

Thread

Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-07-15 08:00 +0200
  Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! likcoras <likcoras@riseup.net> - 2018-07-15 14:00 +0200
  Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-15 16:10 +0200
    Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-15 16:30 +0200
      Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2018-07-15 17:50 +0200
        Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-07-15 18:10 +0200
          Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-07-15 19:10 +0200
            Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 19:30 +0200
        Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-07-15 19:30 +0200

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