On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised / > confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority: required" -- I > presume that is not redundant information, but at first glance it seems so.
At second glance you looked at https://wiki.debian.org/Glossary and the light dawned. > Anyway, I am just "fishing" for information on how dist-upgrade decides which > package is more important to install (when faced with such a decision). > > I suppose I can live without knowing that ;-) I've lost track. Are you using dist-upgrade on stable or unstable? -- Brian.