Re: interesting aptitude situation

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:30:13PM -0600, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> was heard to say:
>   libgtk2.0-bin The following packages have been automatically kept back:
>   libgtk2.0-common 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 
> 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 8098B of archives. After unpacking 53.2kB will be freed.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libgtk2.0-bin: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.1-2) but 2.12.1-1 is installed.
> Resolving dependencies...
> *** ERROR: search aborted by fatal exception.  You may continue
>            searching, but some solutions will be unreachable.
>
> In solution <>;[libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 -> {libgtk2.0-common 2.12.1-1}, libgtk2.0-bin 2.12.1-2 -> {}];-200:
> Unexpectedly non-broken dependency libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 -> {libgtk2.0-common 2.12.1-1}!
>   (libgtk2.0-common 2.12.1-1 is installed)
> Abort.
> debian:~# exit
> exit

  You've met #432411.  You can probably work around it in your case by
providing a manual resolution:

aptitude full-upgrade libgtk2.0-bin:

  (I'm assuming that actually resolves the dependencies, of course!)

  Daniel