Bug#538399: /usr/bin/apt-get: fails to upgrade dependencies
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.21
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/apt-get
This is a mojor problem. Unless you always use dist-upgrade (as opposed
to only installing security upgrades) and always use only one repository
you will likely get in this situation.
You have two packages - typically libA and libA-dev where libA-dev
requires exact version of libA. And you try to install pacakge B that
requires a newer vesion of libA. Apt fails to do that.
# ia32-apt-get install xinput/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version 1.4.2-1 (Debian:unstable) for xinput
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xinput: Depends: libxi6 (>= 2:1.2.0) but 2:1.1.4-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
# ia32-aptitude install
xinput/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
xinput
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.0kB of archives. After unpacking 77.8kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xinput: Depends: libxi6 (>= 2:1.2.0) but 2:1.1.4-1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Upgrade the following packages:
libxi-dev [2:1.1.4-1 (stable, testing, now) -> 2:1.2.1-2 (unstable)]
libxi6 [2:1.1.4-1 (stable, testing, now) -> 2:1.2.1-2 (unstable)]
Score is -10
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Update "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "[ ! -x /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/update-arch-all.list ] || /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/update-arch-all.list";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "67108864";
APT::Default-Release "lenny";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
"APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists=1";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: mplayer mplayer-nogui
Pin: release a=unstable-i386, o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 997
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable, o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 300
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 300
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: openoffice.org openoffice.org-1.9.125 openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-bundled openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-crashrep openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-debian-menus openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-filter-so52 openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-2.0.0 openoffice.org-help-2.0.1 openoffice.org-help-2.0.2 openoffice.org-help-2.0.3 openoffice.org-help-2.4 openoffice.org-help-de openoffice.org-help-el openoffice.org-help-en openoffice.org-help-es openoffice.org-help-fr openoffice.org-help-it openoffice.org-help-ja openoffice.org-help-ko openoffice.org-help-pt-br openoffice.org-help-sv openoffice.org-help-tr openoffice.org-help-zh-cn openoffice.org-help-zh-tw openoffice.org-hunspell openoffice.org
-hyphenation openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-l10n-1.9.108 openoffice.org-l10n-1.9.114 openoffice.org-l10n-1.9.121 openoffice.org-l10n-2.4 openoffice.org-l10n-en openoffice.org-l10n-en-us openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-mimelnk openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder openoffice.org-report-builder-bin openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-default openoffice.org-style-galaxy openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-industrial openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-thesaurus openoffice.org-unbundled openoffice.org-updatedicts openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-writer2latex
Pin: version 1:3.1.0-*
Pin-Priority: 991
Package: libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev libghc6-xmonad-contrib-doc libghc6-xmonad-contrib-prof libghc6-xmonad-dev libghc6-xmonad-doc libghc6-xmonad-prof xmonad
Pin: version 0.8*
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable-i386
Pin-Priority: 270
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing-i386
Pin-Priority: 280
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable-i386
Pin-Priority: 290
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xserver-xorg-video-intel
#deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian etch non-free
#deb http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
#deb-src http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
#deb http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ testing main
#deb-src http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ testing main
deb http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
deb-src http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
deb [arch=i386] http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
deb-src http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
deb [arch=i386] http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ testing main
deb-src http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ testing main
deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main
#deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt sid main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
pn python-apt <none> (no description available)
-- debconf-show failed
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