On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:47:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:49:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > I don't suppose there's a smaller test case involving fewer packages? > After spending a dozen of hour tracking it, I have the obvious headache, > but also the following: > 1) debootstrap woody > 2) Install the following packages: > konqueror aptitude libqt3 libhtml-tree-perl libapt-pkg-perl libft-perl > 3) point apt at sarge. > At this point you are between a rock and a hard place: > You can do > 2) aptitude install aptitude, but that remove konqueror and perl > 3) aptitude dist-upgrade, but that remove konqueror > As for the culprit, my headache does not allow me to investigate more, > but here some clues: In _woody_, > 1) libqt3 has a circular dependency with libqt3-mt. > 2) libhtml-tree-perl has a circular dependency with libwww-perl. So, this works: aptitude markauto libqt3 perl -pi -e's/stable/sarge/' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update aptitude dist-upgrade But it doesn't give us a solution for users of archs where we don't have a working aptitude for woody. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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