On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 23:38 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > Olivier Langella <olivier.langella@moulon.inra.fr> writes: > > I am using Debian stable with wheezy-backports and I had a > > dist-upgrade issue today. > [...] > > udev : Breaks: consolekit (< 0.4.6-1) but 0.4.5-3.1 is installed. > [...] > > Several people in my lab had also this problem and some were in > > serious trouble because they've lost their desktop. > > Does someone has noticed this issue somewhere else ? > > What can I do to help this to be resolved ? > > As you mention dist-upgrade I wonder: did you configure APT to upgrade > all packages to the version in wheezy-backports? By default you should > only get packages from there if you explicitly specify that you want to > use the backports distribution for it. > > So udev should not get upgraded to 204-7~bpo70+1 by default. This does not absolve you of responsibility as backporter. You should not upload packages to wheezy-backports with versioned depends/breaks/ conflicts that can't be satisfied by packages in wheezy or wheezy-backports. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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