Re: wajig broken in unstable?
Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 8:43pm +1000 from Clive Menzies:
> On (29/06/05 11:09), Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:09:18 +0100
> > Subject: Re: wajig broken in unstable?
> >
> > On 29 Jun 2005, Graham Williams wrote:
> > > Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 7:39pm +1000 from Anthony Campbell:
> > > > I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple
> > > > of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message
> > > > that it has unmet dependencies and I should file a bug report. However,
> > > > bug reporting seems to be failing on Debian at present.
> > > >
> > > > Not sure what is happening here.
> > >
> > > Hi Anthony. Any more specific details? What is it dependent on that is
> > > failing? I presume you might be using sarge (stable) and have upgraded
> > > to unstable? Did you use wajig to do this?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Graham
> > >
> >
> > No, I've been following unstable for many months. In fact, I discovered
> > that synaptic and aptitude had also been removed, but I've reinstalled
> > those without problems. I've been using wajig routinely for some time.
> >
> > The message I get now is:
> >
> >
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> >
> > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> > that package should be filed.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > wajig: Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed
> > E: Broken packages
>
> I'm coming in late on this. Aptitude threatened to remove itself here
> (sid) during the last couple of upgrades because apt and apt-utils were
> being upgraded but aptitude is dependant on the currently installed
> version; so I held apt and apt-utils.
>
> I suspect that you're seeing this behaviour because you've upgraded
> these to 0.6.38 but synaptic/aptitude depend on 0.5.28.6.
>
> You could downgrade these two packages manually to rectify the problem
> perhaps?
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
Thanks for the information. Looks like the apt upgrade is breaking a
few dependencies. I am getting the same problem now! I'll have a look
to see what needs to be done for wajig. As suggested, downgrading apt
and apt-util and then putting them on hold might allow wajig to be
reinstalled.
Regards,
Graham
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