On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 06:19:17PM +0000, ael via Dng wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 11:34:08AM -0500, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> >
> > I've done this many times before, but instead of the routine I
> > expected I get a series of lines like this:
> >
> > Resolving dependencies...
> > open: 85586; closed: 99212; defer: 119; conflict: 233
> >
> > These keep repeating with the number for open and closed
> > incrementing. After a long time I tried this:
> >
> > # aptitude --full-resolver -y

I am having apparent success witn the command # apt-get
dist-upgrade. It seems to be getting the excalibur packages. I'm
curious why # apt-get dist upgrade works but # apt upgrade does
not.


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     Haines Brown