Thread: amd64 upgrade 10.04 to 11.10 aptitude suggests 87 removals of core packages

after multiple do-release-upgrade 10.04 11.10 on amd64 server, aptitude complains problem dependencies.

shown below partial list of 87 suggested removals, of these seem core packages , quite strange wants remove them.

think there's problem multiarch support.

consider wants remove zlib1g, required package.

drilling down in zlib1g package shows strange under predepends/ multiarch-support.

why 2.13-20ubuntu5 shown 'p'? there's no package name can find, think it's part of libc-bin.

have re-installed libc-bin doesn't help.

/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch has:

foreign-architecture i386

any suggestions?

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aptitude 0.6.4 #broken: 2 use 213 kb of disk space dl size: 27.8 k
--\ zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4. 1:1.2.3.4.
description: compression library - runtime

homepage: http://zlib.net/
priority: required
section: libs
maintainer: ubuntu developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
compressed size: 49.3 k
uncompressed size: 172 k
source package: zlib
--\ depends (1)
--- libc6 (>= 2.4)
--\ predepends (1)
--\ multiarch-support
p 2.13-20ubuntu5
multiarch-support 2.13-20ubuntu5
--\ conflicts (2)
--- zlib1 (<= 1:1.0.4-7)
--- zlib1 (<= 1:1.0.4-7)
--\ replaces (1)
--- zlib1g (< 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3)
--\ breaks (1)
--- zlib1g (!= 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3)
--- package names provided zlib1g (1)
--- packages depend on zlib1g (1214)
--\ versions of zlib1g (1)
1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3


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partial list of 87 packages removed:

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--\ remove following packages:
ia32-libs-multiarch [20090808ubuntu26 (now, oneiric)]
libacl1 [2.2.51-3 (now, oneiric)]
libattr1 [1:2.4.46-3 (now, oneiric)]
libaudio2 [1.9.2-8ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libavahi-client3 [0.6.30-4ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libavahi-common3 [0.6.30-4ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libc6 [2.13-20ubuntu5 (now, oneiric)]
libcomerr2 [1.41.14-1ubuntu3 (now, oneiric)]
libcups2 [1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (now, oneiric-updates)]
libcupsimage2 [1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (now, oneiric-updates)]
libcurl3 [7.21.6-3ubuntu3 (now, oneiric)]
libdb5.1 [5.1.25-11 (now, oneiric)]
libdbus-1-3 [1.4.14-1ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libdrm-intel1 [2.4.26-1ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libdrm-nouveau1a [2.4.26-1ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libdrm-radeon1 [2.4.26-1ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libdrm2 [2.4.26-1ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libexpat1 [2.0.1-7ubuntu3 (now, oneiric)]
libffi6 [3.0.11~rc1-2 (now, oneiric)]
libfontconfig1 [2.8.0-3ubuntu2 (now, oneiric)]
libfreetype6 [2.4.4-2ubuntu1 (now, oneiric)]
libgcc1 [1:4.6.1-9ubuntu3 (now, oneiric)]
libgcrypt11 [1.5.0-1 (now, oneiric)]
libgdbm3 [1.8.3-10 (now, oneiric)]




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bump.. have ideas other wipe , re-install?

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