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Every time I go to terminal and do an update+upgrade it wants to downgrade 2 packages (debhelper and dh-autoreconf).

This is the message I get:

The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  debhelper dh-autoreconf
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/854 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

The first few times I went ahead with it but then immediately after it has done this it checks the packages and asks me to downgrade those same two packages. Yesterday I was trying to install an Epson scanner and installed a few things (sane and iscan among them). I have tried reinstalling both of the packages it wants to downgrade (using synaptic package manager) but as soon as I did this synaptic marked them for downgrading. What do I do? Should I remove them completely?

Zanna
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    apparently something needs the older versions – ravery Oct 04 '17 at 12:26
  • pls update your question with a paste of the messages from the terminal ... highlight to copy hit ctrl-shift-c then the normal paste ctrl-v – Scott Stensland Oct 04 '17 at 13:46
  • @Scott Stensland: I have updated my question with the message but I'm not sure what can be learnt from it. ravery: Is there any way of finding out what needs them? – Barra Oct 04 '17 at 14:29
  • Is it safe to remove these packages? I'm just wondering if that would solve it. – Barra Oct 09 '17 at 16:24

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