Re: Icewm lost! Can't reinstall

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 09 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-02-09 11:49 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> >> On 08 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >>Your mirror is not quite up to date.  You need version 4.6.1-3 of
> >                                                         ^^^^^^^^
> >>libgif4, where these transitional packages were added.  Since you
> >>successfully downgraded imlib11 and reinstalled icewm, there is no need
> >>to hurry, though.
> >
> >>The problem you encountered was triggered by the upload of imlib11
> >>version 1.9.15-6, which was the first package to link against libgif4.
> >>See the thread I started on
> >>http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/02/msg00065.html. 
> >
> >
> > Thanks, but this doesn't seem to be right.  I take it 4.6.1-3 is a typo
> > for 4.1.6-3?
> 
> Yes, sorry.
> 
> > In that case, that's the one I was looking at, and it's the
> > only such package listed on the Debian site. And it still gives the
> > REMOVE message if I were to install it -- which, as you say, I won't do
> > for the moment.
> 
> Hm, what command exactly do you use?  For me, "aptitude safe-upgrade"
> duly installed libgif4 and upgraded imlib11 when the transitional
> libungif4g package became available.
> 
> Sven
> 
I'm not using aptitude. I used wajig show-install libgif4.

But wajig show-install imlib11 gives this:

 wajig showinstall imlib11
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libgif4 libungif4g
The following NEW packages will be installed
  libgif4
The following packages will be upgraded:
  imlib11 libungif4g
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Inst libungif4g [4.1.4-5] (4.1.6-3 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libgif4 (4.1.6-3 Debian:unstable)
Inst imlib11 [1.9.15-5] (1.9.15-6 Debian:unstable)
Conf libgif4 (4.1.6-3 Debian:unstable)
Conf libungif4g (4.1.6-3 Debian:unstable)
Conf imlib11 (1.9.15-6 Debian:unstable)


That looks as if it should be safe, but I'm not sure.

Anthony



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