[64studio-devel] "Mark all upgrades" / dist-upgrade wants to remove and downgrade many packages

[tim hall]

Dennis Schulmeister wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> this is just a quick question on upgrading 64studio.
>
> I installed a fresh version 1.3.0 on my computer without any
> modifications to sources.list and the like. But when I want to upgrade
> ("Mark All Upgrades" in Synaptic or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade") apt
> wants to downgrade 531 packages and wants to remove 26 packages.
>
> Among those to be removed also are the 64Studio core packages.
>
> Do you know what's the reason for that.
>   

Yes.

Your /etc/apt/sources.list got rewritten during the upgrade.
Go to Settings -> Repositories
uncheck the 64studio stable entry and check 64studio testing

Overwriting existing config files without permission is considered a bug 
under Debian rules: what is 64studio's position? I would certainly 
prefer that it didn't do this. Would it be useful to open a ticket for 
each instance of this minor but slightly annoying rule violation?

cheers,

tim
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