Hi, I wonder whether the Breaks against the emacs2[12] packages need to be taken out as well. In a chroot the upgrade process removes emacs and its dependencies:
,---- | # LANG=C apt-get install udev | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: | libotf0 ttf-dejavu-extra anthy-common lzma emacs23-bin-common libdbus-glib-1-2 | emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common libgd2-noxpm libkrb53 libdatrie1 libgconf2-4 emacsen-common | libgsf-1-common libcroco3 libidl0 emacs23-common gconf2-common ttf-dejavu liborbit2 libanthy0 | librsvg2-2 libgsf-1-114 | Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. | The following extra packages will be installed: | adduser anthy-common base-files binutils dbus dpkg dpkg-dev emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common | fakeroot fontconfig-config gcc-4.4-base gconf2-common krb5-multidev libalgorithm-diff-perl | libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libanthy0 libasound2 libasound2-dev | libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-dev libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libblkid1 | libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libcroco3 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdb4.7 | libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdpkg-perl libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev libfribidi0 | libgconf2-4 libgcrypt11 libgd2-noxpm libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 | libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libidl0 | libjasper1 libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libk5crypto3 libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 | libkrb5-3 libkrb5-dev libkrb53 libkrb5support0 liblzma2 libncurses5 libncurses5-dev liborbit2 | libotf0 libpci3 libpcre3 librsvg2-2 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 libudev0 libuuid1 libxml2 libxml2-dev | libxrandr-dev libxrandr2 locales ncurses-bin pciutils perl perl-base perl-modules | shared-mime-info usbutils util-linux x11proto-randr-dev xz-utils | Suggested packages: | binutils-doc dbus-x11 debian-keyring emacs23-el emacs23-common-non-dfsg krb5-doc | libasound2-plugins libasound2-doc glibc-doc cups-common rng-tools libgd-tools libglib2.0-doc | gnutls-bin krb5-user librsvg2-common gvfs libgtk2.0-doc libjasper-runtime librsvg2-bin perl-doc | libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl util-linux-locales kbd console-tools | dosfstools xz-lzma | Recommended packages: | libatk1.0-data manpages-dev libglib2.0-data python hicolor-icon-theme libgtk2.0-bin xml-core | The following packages will be REMOVED: | emacs emacs-goodies-el emacs22-nox libkadm55 | The following NEW packages will be installed: | adduser anthy-common dbus emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common fakeroot gcc-4.4-base gconf2-common | krb5-multidev libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libanthy0 | libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6-i686 | libcroco3 libdatrie1 libdb4.7 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdpkg-perl libfribidi0 libgconf2-4 | libgd2-noxpm libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libidl0 libjasper1 | libk5crypto3 libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblzma2 | liborbit2 libotf0 libpci3 librsvg2-2 libudev0 pciutils shared-mime-info usbutils xz-utils | The following packages will be upgraded: | base-files binutils dpkg dpkg-dev fontconfig-config libasound2 libasound2-dev libatk1.0-0 | libatk1.0-dev libblkid1 libc6 libc6-dev libcups2 libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev libgcrypt11 | libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libjpeg62 | libjpeg62-dev libkrb5-dev libkrb53 libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libpcre3 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 | libuuid1 libxml2 libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrandr2 locales ncurses-bin perl perl-base | perl-modules udev util-linux x11proto-randr-dev | 44 upgraded, 50 newly installed, 4 to remove and 222 not upgraded. | Need to get 80.9MB of archives. | After this operation, 114MB of additional disk space will be used. | Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n | Abort. `---- Note that emacs21 and emacs22 no longer exist in Squeeze. The desirable outcome would be to install emacs23 instead, but apt-get is apparently not smart enough for that (it does if you do "apt-get dist-upgrade", though). Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org