Re: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:48 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> > The following packages are BROKEN:
> > xfce4 xfwm4-themes
> > ... ... ...
> > 246 packages upgraded, 75 newly installed, 51 to remove and 3 not
> > upgraded.
> > Need to get 374MB of archives. After unpacking 36.4MB will be freed.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > xfce4: Depends: xfwm4 (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-5 is installed.
> > Depends: xfconf (>= 4.6.0) which is a virtual package.
> > Depends: xfce4-settings (>= 4.6.0) which is a virtual
> > package.
> > Depends: xfce4-panel (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-6 is installed.
> > Depends: xfdesktop4 (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-7 is installed.
> > Depends: thunar (>= 1.0.0) but 0.9.0-10 is installed.
> > Depends: thunar-volman (>= 0.3.80) but it is not installable
> > Depends: xfce4-utils (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-8 is installed.
> > Depends: xfce4-session (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-6 is installed.
> > xfwm4-themes: Depends: xfwm4 (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-5 is installed.
> > The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
> >
> > Keep the following packages at their current version:
> > xfce4 [4.4.2.1 (now)]
> > xfwm4-themes [4.4.2-1 (now)]
> >
> > Score is 130
> >
> > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
>
> First of all, why does "full-upgrade" say "and 3 not upgraded" when
> there seem to be only two un-upgradable packages?
Probably it already decided to hold other packages for reasons not
displayed before this prompt. You should see which ones after this
prompt.
> Second, the "4.6.0" versions of all those packages are available on my
> i386 Sid box. Why haven't they made it to PowerPC yet?
Maybe some of them have bugs which cause them to fail to build from
source (FTBFS) on powerpc. Or maybe the powerpc autobuilders just
haven't caught up yet.
> PS: Can somebody suggest an appropriate "package" to which I can
> submit a bug report on this?
FTBFS bugs should be reported against the corresponding packages, but
otherwise this is just normal sid churn.
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Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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