Bug#591743: Re: Re: Bug#591743: libcups2: Breaks: cups (< 1.4.4)

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Yes, the following was executed without errors:

# apt-get install cups && apt-get dist-upgrade

We need however to automatically handle situations like this in the future.

09.08.10, 01:47, "Steve Langasek" <vorlon@debian.org>:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:24:13PM +0400, Victor Porton wrote:
>  > As far as I remember I have no packages on hold.
>  
>  > $ apt-cache policy cups
>  > cups:
>  >   Installed: 1.4.1-4
>  >   Candidate: 1.4.4-2
>  >   Version table:
>  >      1.4.4-2 0
>  >         500 http://mirror.isoc.org.il squeeze/main Packages
>  >  *** 1.4.1-4 0
>  >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>  
>  Upon inspecting your list of installed packages, it appears you have a large
>  number of packages installed from an earlier snapshot of squeeze.  I have
>  tried to reproduce this error by feeding your list of installed packages to
>  dpkg --set-selections on lenny and then dist-upgrading to squeeze, and this
>  error does not occur; so this is not in scope for upgrade-reports, which is
>  about ensuring smooth upgrades between releases.
>  
>  Please try to run 'apt-get install cups && apt-get dist-upgrade'.  If this
>  succeeds, we should close this bug.  If it fails, please report back the
>  failure message and we can refer it to the cups maintainer for further
>  examination.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  

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