Bug#624470: gnome-desktop-environment: apt-get dist-upgrade broken

[Nigel Horne]

Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Version: 1:2.30+8
Severity: normal


I'm not sure which package to put this against.  Sorry if this is the
wrong one, but the messages give no guidance.

Running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' says that gnome will be REMOVED.  When it asks
me 'Do you want to continue [Y/n]', I think (a) stupid question, why would
I want to remove gnome when I'm upgrading (b) who would think that yes would
be a good idea for the default action?

bandsman:/tmp# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome gnome-desktop-environment libcryptui0 seahorse-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcap2-bin libcryptui0a libgck0 libgcr-3-0 libmath-round-perl
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gnome-keyring libdatetime-perl libgnome-keyring0 seahorse
4 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/5,716 kB of archives.
After this operation, 303 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on:
ii  alacarte                    0.13.2-1     easy GNOME menu editing tool
ii  baobab                      2.30.0-2     GNOME disk usage analyzer
ii  brasero                     2.30.3-2     CD/DVD burning application for GNO
ii  cheese                      2.30.1-2     A tool to take pictures and videos
ii  deskbar-applet              2.32.0-1+b1  universal search and navigation ba
ii  ekiga                       3.2.7-2+b1   H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP clie
ii  empathy                     2.30.3-2     GNOME multi-protocol chat and call
ii  fast-user-switch-applet     2.24.0-6     Applet for the GNOME panel providi
ii  gcalctool                   5.30.2-2     GNOME desktop calculator
ii  gconf-editor                2.30.0-2     An editor for the GConf configurat
ii  gdm                         2.20.11-4    GNOME Display Manager
ii  gksu                        2.0.2-5      graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-backgrounds           2.32.0-1     a set of backgrounds packaged with
ii  gnome-bluetooth             2.30.0-2     GNOME Bluetooth tools
ii  gnome-core                  1:2.30+8     The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e
ii  gnome-dictionary            2.30.0-2     GNOME dictionary application
ii  gnome-media                 2.30.0-1     GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet      2.28.1-1     Network status applet for GNOME
ii  gnome-nettool               2.30.0-3     network information tool for GNOME
ii  gnome-screenshot            2.30.0-2     screenshot application for GNOME
ii  gnome-search-tool           2.30.0-2     GNOME tool to search files
ii  gnome-system-log            2.30.0-2     system log viewer for GNOME
ii  gnome-system-monitor        2.28.1-1     Process viewer and system resource
ii  gnome-system-tools          2.30.2-2     Cross-platform configuration utili
ii  gnome-user-share            2.30.1-1     User level public file sharing via
ii  gstreamer0.10-tools         0.10.32-6+b1 Tools for use with GStreamer
ii  gucharmap                   1:2.30.3-1   Unicode character picker and font 
ii  gvfs-bin                    1.6.4-3      userspace virtual filesystem - bin
ii  hamster-applet              2.30.2-3     time tracking applet for GNOME
ii  libgnome2-perl              1.042-2      Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii  nautilus-sendto             2.28.4-2+b1  integrates Evolution and Pidgin in
ii  remmina                     0.9.3-2      remote desktop client for GNOME de
ii  seahorse                    2.30.1-2     GNOME front end for GnuPG
ii  seahorse-plugins            2.30.1-3     seahorse plugins and utilities for
ii  sound-juicer                2.32.0-1     GNOME CD Ripper
ii  totem-plugins               2.30.2-6     Plugins for the Totem media player
ii  vino                        2.28.2-2     VNC server for GNOME
ii  xdg-user-dirs-gtk           0.8-1        tool to manage well known user dir
ii  zenity                      2.30.0-1     Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment recommends:
ii  gnome-accessibility           1:2.30+8   The GNOME desktop environment -- a
ii  gnome-games                   1:2.30.2-2 games for the GNOME desktop

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment suggests:
pn  gnome-dbg                     <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information