Re: Etch dependency failures

["Patrick Wiseman" <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On 2/18/06, David Jarvie <lists@astrojar.org.uk> wrote:

I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more than
once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet
dependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils, but
in the last week or so more have started appearing each time. I'm surprised
that these haven't been fixed quickly. Does anybody know what is the reason
for these errors?

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libpaperg: Depends: libpaper1 (= 1.1.14-3) but 1.1.14-5 is to be installed.
             Depends: libpaper-utils (= 1.1.14-3) but 1.1.14-5 is to be
installed.
  python2.3-glade2: Depends: python2.3-gtk2 (= 2.6.3-2) but 2.8.2-3 is
installed.
  dbus-glib-1: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable
  libhal0: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable
  libhal-storage0: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable
  dbus-qt-1-dev: Depends: dbus-qt-1c2 (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not installable
                 Depends: dbus-1-dev (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not installable

I had a similar experience 3 or 4 weeks ago (I do weekly updates with
aptitude).  Aptitude reported that several packages - a list
similar to that above - were broken.  I followed the broken
dependencies and fixed them one by one (using 'b' in aptitude to find
each broken package, and then examining each one for what was missing
and installing it).  As I recall, it took a couple of passes to
get everything back in order, but I haven't had the problem
since.  Of course, all that should not be necessary - but at least
it worked, for me at least.

Patrick