Thank you a lot for these songs. They brought me to an interesting idea. It's a fact, that one of the main ways of celebrating Christmas is of course by singing Christmas songs. The best way to do it is to have a good instrumental back music to support...

Hm, I don't use GNOME per se (just plain icewm) but I guess I have some GNOME libs installed due to some application dependencies. However, I have no "devicekit-disks" package installed right now, so not sure if it's the same issue. Uwe.

http://bugs.debian.org/545032 perhaps? You'll have to thank a specific fellow DM, who seems to think that adding a conflict on a critical package like dmsetup is an acceptable workaround.

You almost certainly lost those packages during the period in which dmsetup conflicted with devicekit-disks, and GNOME started requiring devicekit-disks. Apt thus removed dmsetup to keep GNOME and devicekit-disks, and removed lvm2 and cryptsetup which...

Are you using gnome? Then it was probably due to a conflict between devicekit-disks (a gnome dependency) and dmsetup.