Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository!

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:19:10 +0200 schreef Joe <joe@jretrading.com>:

> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:58:19 +0200
> Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I suspect it will be more than a few days. Unstable has been
> > > disrupted for weeks, and aptitude full-upgrade still shrugs and
> > > says 'I can't do it, do you want to have a try?' There are more
> > > than 150 packages stuck at the moment, on a system with just over
> > > 4000 installed.
> > >
> > > Apt-get dist-upgrade wants to pull about seventy packages, but some
> > > are libraries which will be replaced by new versions. Gimp and
> > > gnome-mplayer are in the list, which I'm not willing to give up
> > > yet. If I get bored, I might mess around with synaptic to see if I
> > > can upgrade a few, but clearly there is still significant trouble.
> > >
> >
> > gnome-mplayer is removed from testing and unstable. So I wouldn't
> > wait to long.
>
> OK, thanks. I would hope not Gimp also...

if you have deb-multimedia as a repo, than make sure you install
libgegl-0.2-0 from the official Debian repo. The deb-multimedia
version has an old depends on libilmbase6 but libilmbase6v5 is
in Debian.

Success,

floris