On Wed 07/Jul/2021 23:10:15 +0200 Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 19:41:43 +0200
> Alessandro Vesely <vesely@???> wrote:
>>
>> Here's the sequence of what I did: I wrote to the list each time, so
>> I know the exactly when.
>>
>> 4 January 2020: migrate from debian/stretch to beowulf
>> https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20200104.101800.7b0f18cb.en.html
>> Beowulf was the stable version at the time. Afterwards, I upgraded
>> it regularly and smoothly.
>
> I'm assuming you didn't try to migrate from Stretch to Beowulf directly
> before doing the ascii migration.


Hm.. yes, you must be right.


> And I keep detailed logs of what I do.


On a server, I used to run release dist-upgrades under script. I gave up after
realizing I never dug into those files. The last time I just kept the tripwire
log. (Albeit tripwire leaves something to be desired w.r.t., say, subversion.)

None on those on a client, which is this case.


>>> How did you remove those packages?
>>
>> No idea. Didn't remove them intentionally. Not even sure /when/
>> they were removed.
>
> During your migration to Beowulf and dist-upgrade to Chimaera, and if
> you followed instructions, autoremove could have removed them as part
> of the cleanup.
>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Upgrade by design won't install major upgrades to apps, system
>>> files, etc. which can occur with Testing.
>>
>> However, apt should still keep back unupgraded packages, so that if
>> you issue a dist-upgrade afterwards, it can find them and upgrade
>> them, correct?
>
> It should, but if you used autoremove, those "held back" packages will
> be removed and forgotten.


Ugh, the man page says:

     Packages which you have installed explicitly via install are also
     never proposed for automatic removal.

Inkscape must have been installed explicitly.


Best
Ale
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