Re: Bug#391377: tetex-extra: aptitude wants to remove tetex-extra upon dist-upgrade to etch
reassign 391377 aptitude
thanks
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> under certain circumstances (I discovered that when logging into a woody
> pbuilder, installing tetex-extra, dist-upgrading to sarge and then to
> etch), aptitude refuses to update tetex-extra. It looks like this:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libxft1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
> Resolving dependencies...
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Remove the following packages:
> libxft1
> xlibs
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> build-essential [10.1 (now)]
> dpkg-dev [1.10.28 (now)]
> tetex-base [2.0.2c-8 (now)]
> tetex-bin [2.0.2-30sarge4 (now)]
> tetex-extra [2.0.2c-8 (now)]
> tex-common [Not Installed]
> texinfo [4.7-2.2 (now)]
>
> Upgrade the following packages:
> libwww0 [5.4.0-9 (now) -> 5.4.0-11 (testing)]
>
> Score is -572
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
>
> Neither tetex-bin nor texinfo depend on libxft1 (or xfree86-common). It
> does depend on xlibs, however.
In the interactive frontend, aptitude makes the same suggestions.
However, when the seven held-back packages are manually selected, this
only has the effect that the number of packages that are marked as
"deleted because they are no longer needed" drops by three or four. In
other words, there's no reason at all to hold them back.
I'll send a list of the packages installed prior to the dist-upgrade in
a minute. It has been generated with
pbuilder login --configfile /etc/pbuilderrc.woody
# apt-get install tetex-extra less
then I edited /etc/apt/sources.list to point to etch
# apt-get update
# apt-get install aptitude apt dpkg
# aptitude dist-upgrade
edit sources list again to point to etch (plus local packages for
tex-common and tetex-bin)
# apt-get install aptitude apt dpkg
# aptitude dist-upgrade
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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