Re: xlibs breaking dependencies

[Andreas Wüst <awuest@swissonline.ch>]

Hi Michel

Am Samstag, 26.07.03, um 12:48 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel 
Dänzer:

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> > > > Hmm, well, basically I wanted to do
> > > >
> > > > # apt-get -u -t unstable install gnome-session
> > > >
> > > > on one of my boxen (which is running woody ATM). This gets me a list
> > > > of
> > > > broken dependencies, and apt-get quits. Following those deps, I end 
> > > > up
> > > > everywhere on said xlibs dependency (which, to be honest, I don't
> > > > understand, why does it want to install 4.1.0-16 when it wants a
> > > > version greater then 4.2.0 and such a version [4.2.1-9] is even
> > > > available?).
> > >
> > > Because you have an older version installed, and you don't tell it to
> > > upgrade that.
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't get this one! I thought, deps would be handled
> > automatically??  If I tell it, for instance, to apt-get -u -t unstable
> > install openoffice.org, apt-get tells me that libc6 etc. (of which I
> > obviously have already an older, i.e. woody, version installed) will 
> > be
> > upgraded. So, why does it not do that when trying to install
> > gnome-session?
>
> Hmm. Did you maybe pin xlibs to the older version before with something
> like xlibs=4.1.0-16 or xlibs/stable?

No. There is no /etc/apt/preferences at all.

If I check aptitude (thanks to l and ˜b), there are 2 broken packages 
ATM, namely galeon-nautilus (which is installed) and fam, which is not 
installed (but I don't know if this is of any relevance, I just report 
it anyhow).

Furthermore, setting the default release to "woody" in apt.conf does 
not have any influence, i.e. it still gives the broken deps if I rename 
apt.conf.

> What does apt-cache policy xlibs
> say?

xlibs:
  Installed: 4.1.0-16
  Candidate: 4.2.1-9
  Version Table:
     4.2.1-9 0
        500 ... unstable/main Packages
 *** 4.1.0-16 0
        500 ... woody/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


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Best wishes and thanks,
Andi