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Re: aptitude dist-upgrade complaining about evolution being broken?



On 2007-12-18 07:30 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote:

> When I do "aptitude dist-upgrade" on my Lenny testing machine, I get:
>
>
>> The following packages are BROKEN:
>>   evolution-exchange evolution-plugins gnome-desktop-environment
>> The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
>>   evolution
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   evolution
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   evolution-webcal libasound2 libdjvulibre15 libenchant1c2a
>> liblog4j1.2-java
>> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
>>   liblog4j1.2-java-gcj
>> 5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not
>> upgraded.
>> Need to get 1674kB of archives. After unpacking 9310kB will be freed.
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: evolution (>= 2.6.3) but it is
>> not installable
>>   evolution-exchange: Depends: evolution (>= 2.10.2) but it is not
>> installable
>>   evolution-plugins: Depends: evolution (>= 2.10.3) but it is not
>> installable
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>>
>> Keep the following packages at their current version:
>> evolution [2.10.3-1 (testing, testing, now)]
>> evolution-webcal [2.10.0-1 (testing, now)]

While aptitude's original diagnose that evolution is broken may be a bit
odd, the proposal to keep these packages seems reasonable.

>> Score is 191
>>
>> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
>> Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
>> Abort.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts on what's wrong or what to do about it?

What happens if you type "y" at the last prompt?  Or "n" and let
aptitude suggest other solutions?

Regards,
        Sven


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