On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:40:22AM +0530, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > *** Please type your report below this line *** > I have seen this many a time and more so now when I am trying to > upgrade from stable to testing. What happens is many a time there is a > library which is being removed and there is no hint as to which > package is the one responsible for the library being removed. > Sometimes you do get hints when the package names are similar, but > many a times not. Also sometimes the package names may be similar but > they may be a part of a series of packages and its hard to figure out > which is the one responsible. I do not claim to know the answer but > one way perhaps could be > > say if library 'stable' is being removed due to changes in package > 'sid' it could show as > > library 'stable being removed:'sid' > > This would atleast indicate which package is the one responsible and > then one can download the changelog and see what changes have made > library 'stable' reduntant. Maybe fixed upstream, or merged within > package 'sid' or no longer needed whatever the reason, atleast I know > this is due to package 'sid' .
Assuming you're working at the command-line, does it help if you pass "-W"? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
