On 8/27/15, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): >> Hi, >> >> as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case >> package can not be upgraded with "apt-get upgrade" because upgrade >> requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with >> apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install new packages if needed. >> >> Now for some reason "db5.1-util" package is kept back despite the fact >> that I execute "apt-get dist-upgrade": > > I'm not sure which distribution you're running. > > [snip] > >> Am I correct that "db5.1-util" is kept back because it replaces >> libdb5.1 which is required by python2.6 which I have installed? Output >> of apt-cache can be seen below: > > So what depends on python2.6 that won't be satisfied with 2.7? > > My wheezy shows libdb5.1:i386 5.1.29-5 and jessie has libdb5.3:i386 > 5.3.28-9 > (assuming they're related). Neither has python2.6. > > Cheers, > David. > >
How would you check the packages which depend on python2.6 that won't be satisfied with python2.7? Simply compare the outputs of "apt-cache rdepends python2.6" and "apt-cache rdepends python2.7"? thanks, Martin
