Re: Installation dependencies failure on sid

[jnqnfe <jnqnfe@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 01:12 -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:17 AM, jnqnfe <jnqnfe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Update: Over the past week since reporting this issue, the number of
> > blocked updates on my Sid install due to dependency issues has increased
> > from 14 to 21, though the number of packages listed as having unmet
> > dependencies has reduced. Updated aptitude output is below.
> >
> >
> >> tester@testPC:~$ sudo aptitude upgrade
> >> Resolving dependencies...
> >> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> >> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
> >> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> >>
> >> tester@testPC:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
> >> The following packages will be upgraded:
> >>   xserver-xorg-core{b} xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-intel
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-vesa
> >>   xserver-xorg-video-vmware
> >> 21 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >> Need to get 224 kB/7,204 kB of archives. After unpacking 500 kB will be used.
> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >>  xserver-xorg-core : Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting but 0.9.0-1+b2 is to be installed.
> >> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
> >>
> >>      Remove the following packages:
> >> 1)     xserver-xorg-video-modesetting
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
> >> Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
> >> Abort.
> 
> This is as expected. The latest X server in sid introduced an ABI
> bump, and so the various DDX drivers in sid have to be
> updated/rebuilt; they also have to migrate to testing at the same time
> (you can see the progress of the transition at [1]).
> xserver-xorg-video-modesetting as a separate package is going away
> (#784747), so feel free to let apt/aptitude remove it.
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent
> 
> [1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/xserver1.17.html

I see, thanks! I mostly just wanted to make sure you were aware of the
issue, considering it's been like this for several days, but that
appears to just be a delay in the ftp masters removing this now obsolete
package. As long as such things do not delay security or other critical
updates getting through to Sid users (many of whom use Sid as more of a
rolling release, as I'm sure you are aware), then I'm perfectly happy. I
have done as suggested and allowed the modesetting package to be
removed.

Thanks again.