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

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

Followup is bottom posted...

On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:09 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:

> 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)]
> > >
> > > 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?
> Yes, the evolution-webcal is for a new version of evolution that is  
> not
> yet available in testing yet. Accept the option offered by aptitude  
> (to
> keep evolution) and wait for the upgraded evolution to become  
> available
> for testing.
>
> Sjoerd
> > Rick

OK, I did that, and now it says:

> 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
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not  
> upgraded.
> Need to get 95.6kB 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:
>
> Remove the following packages:
> evolution-webcal
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> evolution [2.10.3-1 (testing, testing, now)]
>
> Score is 190
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
> Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
> Abort.


I don't use evolution-webcal, so I'm not too worried about removing  
it, but I'm a little concerned when it says that gnome-desktop- 
environment is broken.  Is it going to try to remove that next?

Happy Solstice!

Rick