On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:25:38PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Debian Bug Tracking System said on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:15:08PM +0000,: > > > It's experimental, not a bug. > > I now have only testing in my sources.list, and aptitude is still uninstallable. You still have apt from experimental installed which provides libapt-pkg4.9 and not libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8. Since downgrades are not supported, there is no way to install aptitude. > > And there is some problem with dependency information somewhere - apt > provides the libapt-pkg-libc6Whatever package; and it is installed; > but still aptitude refuses to install. I do not think that being in > experimental is a reason for apt/dpkg to ignore correctly declared > dependency information in packages. It does not ignore anything. > > Additionally, > > Package libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 is a virtual package provided by: > You should explicitly select one to install. > > is an unexpected / incomplete message; I think a a package SHOULD be > named here when the user has given apt* wrong / inadequate names of > packages to be installed. That's probably a (minor) bug. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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