Bug#120942: marked as done (predepends breaks error messages)
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
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Subject: predepends breaks error messages
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Package: apt-get
Version: 0.5.4
With the packages in unstable in their current state, apt-get produces the
following error for me:
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --ignore-hold
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Failed
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgnomeprint15: PreDepends: gs
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
which is terribly confusing as I have `gs' installed. What it
doesn't tell me is that its plan is to remove gs. Using -o
Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes shows what's actually going on:
Package tar has broken dep on cpio
Considering cpio 19 as a solution to tar 5105
Added cpio to the remove list
Fixing tar via remove of cpio
Package dpkg-dev has broken dep on cpio
Considering cpio 5105 as a solution to dpkg-dev 19
Removing dpkg-dev rather than change cpio
Package debhelper has broken dep on dpkg-dev
Considering dpkg-dev 5105 as a solution to debhelper 19
Removing debhelper rather than change dpkg-dev
Package defoma has broken dep on debhelper
Considering debhelper 5105 as a solution to defoma 19
Removing defoma rather than change debhelper
Package gs-common has broken dep on defoma
Considering defoma 5105 as a solution to gs-common 19
Removing gs-common rather than change defoma
Package gs has broken dep on gs-common
Considering gs-common 5105 as a solution to gs 19
Removing gs rather than change gs-common
The error message could be considerably improved; there's nothing to
connect gs or libgnomeprint to the real problem (that tar and cpio are
conflicting).
I think there are several _other_ problems here, namely that defoma should
not depend on debhelper and libgnomeprint15 should not be pre-depending
on gs. But this seems like a clear bug in apt-get.
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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The error message is correct, the problem is that gs was not removed. This
is due to the extreme number of packages that would have had to have been
removed to get rid of tar/etc hiting the loop prevention limit..
Jason
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