Bug#572169: /usr/bin/apt-get: apt-get breaks on openoffice.org-core upgrade
Hi Anne Henmi,
2010/3/2 Anne Henmi <bengaltigerstripes@gmail.com>:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.25.3
> Severity: critical
> File: /usr/bin/apt-get
> Justification: breaks the whole system
Let me note that apt hasn't break your system.
Your system is in a broken state BEFORE you call apt,
so you have either manually fiddled with dpkg or
a previous package installation failed because of
a broken maintainerscript / forbidden fileoverride or whatever.
(That is a critical bug in the failing package!)
APT by design never leaves you in a broken system state:
Calculation correct paths from one good state to another
is complicated enough, but paths from a bad into a good
state are sometimes more complicated or even impossible…
(or in this case to figure out the correct installation order as
strategies which can be applied on good states doesn't always
work in bad states and vise versa)
> E: Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-core for openoffice.org-evolution, probably a dependency cycle.
I suspect that a strategy to avoid Conflicts/Breaks doesn't
work correctly if your system is already broken…
(together with a pre-depends of course, to add more fun).
Could you run the following please?
apt-get install -f -o Debug::pkgOrderList=1 -o Debug::pkgPackageManager=1
It could be also interesting to see what dpkg thinks about the situation
dpkg --audit
These two together should tell us in a bit more detail what is wrong.
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
David Kalnischkies
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