Re: aptitude safe-upgrade says libgnomekbd-common is being kept back on sid powerpc systems

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> When I do "aptitude safe-upgrade" on my sid powerpc systems, it  
> says that libgnomekbd-common is being kept back.  This has been  
> going on for a week or more.
>
> It doesn't do that on my sid i386 systems.
>
> It doesn't seem to be hurting anything...
>
> Anybody got an idea why?
>
>
> Rick

If I do a "dist-upgrade" I get even stranger results...

> greybox:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following packages are BROKEN:
>   libgnomekbd2
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libgnomekbd-common
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not  
> upgraded.
> Need to get 124kB of archives. After unpacking 466kB will be freed.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libgnomekbd2: Depends: libgnomekbd-common (= 2.22.0-1) but  
> 2.22.0-2 is to be installed.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Remove the following packages:
> fast-user-switch-applet
> gnome-accessibility
> gnome-applets
> gnome-control-center
> gnome-core
> gnome-desktop-environment
> gnome-panel
> gnome-screensaver
> gnome-session
> gnome-settings-daemon
> libgnomekbd2
> libgnomekbdui2
> nautilus
> nautilus-cd-burner
>
> Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
> capplets-data recommends gnome-control-center (>= 1:2.22.2.1-2)
> gnome-panel-data recommends gnome-panel
> gnome-system-tools recommends gnome-control-center (>= 1:2.10.1-1)
> gnome-volume-manager recommends nautilus-cd-burner
> mousetweaks recommends gnome-control-center
> nautilus-data recommends nautilus
> rhythmbox recommends gnome-control-center (>= 2.15.90)
> totem-plugins recommends gnome-settings-daemon
> Score is -4902
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]