blog/data/2010-06-13-debian-upgrades.txt

   1 Title: Lenny->Squeeze upgrades, removals by apt and aptitude
   2 Tags: english, debian, debian edu
   3 Date: 2010-06-13 09:05
   4
   5 <p>My
   6 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html">testing
   7 of Debian upgrades</a> from Lenny to Squeeze continues, and I've
   8 finally made the upgrade logs available from
   9 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/</a>.
  10 I am now testing dist-upgrade of Gnome and KDE in a chroot using both
  11 apt and aptitude, and found their differences interesting.  This time
  12 I will only focus on their removal plans.</p>
  13
  14 <p>After installing a Gnome desktop and the laptop task, apt-get wants
  15 to remove 72 packages when dist-upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze.  The
  16 surprising part is that it want to remove xorg and all
  17 xserver-xorg-video* drivers.  Clearly not a good choice, but I am not
  18 sure why.  When asking aptitude to do the same, it want to remove 129
  19 packages, but most of them are library packages I suspect are no
  20 longer needed.  Both of them want to remove bluetooth packages, which
  21 I do not know.  Perhaps these bluetooth packages are obsolete?</p>
  22
  23 <p>For KDE, apt-get want to remove 82 packages, among them kdebase
  24 which seem like a bad idea and xorg the same way as with Gnome. Asking
  25 aptitude for the same, it wants to remove 192 packages, none which are
  26 too surprising.</p>
  27
  28 <p>I guess the removal of xorg during upgrades should be investigated
  29 and avoided, and perhaps others as well.  Here are the complete list
  30 of removals.  The complete logs is available from the URL above.  Note
  31 if you want to repeat these tests, that the upgrade test for
  32 kde+apt-get hung in the tasksel setup because of dpkg asking conffile
  33 questions.  No idea why.  I worked around it by using '<tt>echo >>
  34 /proc/<em>pidofdpkg</em>/fd/0</tt>' to tell dpkg to continue.</p>
  35
  36 <p><b>apt-get gnome 72</b>
  37 <br>bluez-gnome cupsddk-drivers deskbar-applet gnome
  38   gnome-desktop-environment gnome-network-admin gtkhtml3.14
  39   iceweasel-gnome-support libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libgdl-1-0
  40   libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libmetacity0 libslab0 libxcb-xlib0
  41   nautilus-cd-burner python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras
  42   serpentine swfdec-mozilla update-manager xorg xserver-xorg
  43   xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  44   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  45   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
  46   xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
  47   xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
  48   xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
  49   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
  50   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
  51   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
  52   xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
  53   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
  54   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
  55   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
  56   xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
  57   xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
  58   xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
  59   xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
  60   xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
  61   xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
  62   xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
  63   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
  64   xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9
  65   xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support</p>
  66
  67 <p><b>aptitude gnome 129</b>
  68
  69 <br>bluez-gnome bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers dhcdbd
  70   djvulibre-desktop finger gnome-app-install gnome-mount
  71   gnome-network-admin gnome-spell gnome-vfs-obexftp
  72   gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gtkhtml3.14 libao2
  73   libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
  74   libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7 libcucul0 libcupsys2 libcurl3 libdatrie0
  75   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdvdread3 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20
  76   libeel2-data libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libfaad0 libgail-common
  77   libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common
  78   libggz2 libggzcore9 libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0
  79   libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libgnomeprint2.2-0
  80   libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
  81   libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtkhtml2-0
  82   libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6
  83   libhesiod0 libicu38 libiw29 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 libmagick++10
  84   libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmetacity0 libmtp7 libmysqlclient15off
  85   libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0 libnm-util0 libopal-2.2
  86   libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10
  87   libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libraw1394-8
  88   libsensors3 libslab0 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8 libssh2-1
  89   libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10
  90   libtrackerclient0 libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0
  91   libxerces2-java libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12 libxtrap6
  92   libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common nautilus-cd-burner
  93   openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist p7zip
  94   python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gnome2-desktop
  95   python-gnome2-extras python-gtkhtml2 python-gtkmozembed
  96   python-numeric python-sexy serpentine svgalibg1 swfdec-gnome
  97   swfdec-mozilla totem-gstreamer update-manager wodim
  98   xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
  99   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
 100   zip</p>
 101
 102 <p><b>apt-get kde 82</b>
 103
 104 <br>cupsddk-drivers karm kaudiocreator kcoloredit kcontrol kde kde-core
 105   kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-bin-kde3
 106   kdebase-kio-plugins kdesktop kdeutils khelpcenter kicker
 107   kicker-applets knewsticker kolourpaint konq-plugins konqueror korn
 108   kpersonalizer kscreensaver ksplash libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libkiten1
 109   libxcb-xlib0 quanta superkaramba texlive-base-bin xorg xserver-xorg
 110   xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
 111   xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
 112   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
 113   xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
 114   xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
 115   xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
 116   xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
 117   xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
 118   xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
 119   xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
 120   xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
 121   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
 122   xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
 123   xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
 124   xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
 125   xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
 126   xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
 127   xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
 128   xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
 129   xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
 130   xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
 131   xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9</p>
 132
 133 <p><b>aptitude kde 192</b>
 134 <br>bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers cvs dcoprss dhcdbd
 135   djvulibre-desktop dosfstools eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext
 136   ghostscript-x imlib-base imlib11 indi kandy karm kasteroids
 137   kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbstate kcoloredit kcontrol kcron kdat
 138   kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window
 139   kdebase-bin-kde3 kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu-data
 140   kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data
 141   kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
 142   kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdeprint kdesktop kdessh
 143   kdict kdnssd kdvi kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs
 144   kghostview khelpcenter khexedit kiconedit kitchensync klatin
 145   klickety kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmoon kmrml kodo kolourpaint
 146   kooka korn kpager kpdf kpercentage kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler
 147   krec kregexpeditor ksayit ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver
 148   ksnake ksokoban ksplash ksvg ksysv ktip ktnef kuickshow kverbos
 149   kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kworldclock
 150   kxsldbg libakode2 libao2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile
 151   libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
 152   libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
 153   libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0 libdatrie0
 154   libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0
 155   libgail-common libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0
 156   libicu38 libiec61883-0 libindex0 libiw29 libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1
 157   libkdeedu3 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkiten1 libkleopatra1 libkmime2
 158   libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1
 159   libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 libmagick10 libmimelib1c2a
 160   libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9
 161   libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 libsmbios2
 162   libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libtalloc1 libtiff-tools
 163   libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0 libxerces2-java
 164   libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 mpeglib networkstatus
 165   openoffice.org-writer2latex pmount poster psutils quanta quanta-data
 166   superkaramba svgalibg1 tex-common texlive-base texlive-base-bin
 167   texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
 168   xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
 169   xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
 170   xulrunner-1.9</p>
 171