On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 14:22:51 +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> I haven't done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' for about a month,

Which means you probably haven't noticed the percolation of a newer glibc
from sid to sarge; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=920 .

> ronaldace:/home/ronald# apt-get dist-upgrade -u

> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   fetchmail-common

> The following NEW packages will be installed:

>   gcc-3.2-base

> The following packages will be upgraded

>   fetchmail fetchmailconf

> But, for example, I don't know why my system wants to get rid of fetchmail

It doesn't. It wants to remove fetchmail-common, but wants to upgrade
fetchmail as well. Looks like the fetchmail maintainer did some
reorganisation, perhaps moving fetchmail-common's files into the main
fetchmail package.

> and install gcc 3.2.

It's now the standard compiler.

> Please let me know if this is a normal thing

Looks like it.

HTH,
Ray
-- 
I'd rather not work with people who aren't careful. It's darwinism in
software development.
        Linus Torvalds on the linux-kernel list


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