I just upgraded my system to all the latest woody stuff as of about an hour ago.
Now, I want to install the alsa-source package so I can rebuild alsa for my system (I have an older version, 0.5.10b-6, installed now) But whenever I try to install it, it wants to remove some critical files from my system first! # apt-get install alsa-source Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: alien debhelper dh-make 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 1333kB of archives. After unpacking 634kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Uhm, excuse me, but I'm _using_ those! :) Turns out that alsa-source wants version 3.0.35 or better of debhelper: # apt-cache show alsa-source | less Package: alsa-source ... Version: 0.9+0beta4-5 Depends: debconf (>> 0.2.26), make, gcc | c-compiler Recommends: dpkg-dev, kernel-package, debhelper (>= 3.0.35), debconf-utils Suggests: devscripts Conflicts: debhelper (<< 3.0.35) ... but the latest version in testing is 3.0.15: # dlocate -s debhelper Package: debhelper Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 357 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 3.0.15 ... # apt-get install debhelper Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, debhelper is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. If I want to install a better debhelper, I have to go to unstable. I thought the idea behind testing was that packages would only go into testing once all the packages that they needed were also in testing... How am I confused? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.