Re: Setting up apt when have mixture of testing, sid and experimental

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID.
>
> My sources.list is:
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main
> # deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main
>
> # Bitlbee
> deb http://code.bitlbee.org/debian/devel/testing/amd64/ ./
>
> # GNUstep
> deb http://coyote.octets.fr/pub/gnustep/packages/wheezy/amd64/ ./
>
> Yesterday when I want to install the 'kazam' package, I get message in
> the aptitude interface:
>
> liborc-0.4-dev depends on liborc-0.4-0 (= 1:0.4.17-2)
>
> and this is a broken package now.
>
> I get an advice from the kazam's package maintainer Andrew
> Starr-Bochicchio:
> <quote>
> You seem to have a mix of packages from both unstable and testing
> installed. liborc, which is an indirect dependency of kazam, currently
> has different versions in unstable and testing. Starting from a fresh
> unstable chroot, I can install kazam with no problems.
> </quote>
>
> Now, how can I set up my apt system to avoid such a conflict?

Have you run "apt-get update" and {,dist-}upgraded?

Are you using pinning? Are the liborc-* packages pinned to testing?

What's the output of:

apt-conf dump | grep Release
apt-cache policy
apt-cache policy kazam
apt-cache policy liborc-0.4-0
apt-cache policy liborc-0.4-dev

(You should add "http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main" to
"/etc/apt/sources.list".)