Hi! First of all: Thanks for the report! On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:36:41AM -0400, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote: > Trying to install a package from experimental, apt-get is (apparently) > failing to resolve dependencies, but is also failing to report or return any > error related to that: > > $ sudo apt-get install gedit/experimental > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Selected version '3.12.0-1' (Debian:experimental [amd64]) for 'gedit' > The following extra packages will be installed: > gedit > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded. > $ echo $? > 0 Unfortunately I can't reproduce this here at the moment, so if you still can, would it be possible to attach/mail me your /var/lib/dpkg/status ? Otherwise, maybe you can reproduce it with one of the older backups of this file, you can try it with e.g. the following options: -s -o dir::state::status=/var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz Debug options like: -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1 -o Debug::pkgDepCache::Marker=1 might also shine some light on this. As usual: The dpkg/status file (and its backups) contain information about what packages you have installed and in which version. They do not contain personal information per-se, but your personal package selections (e.g. everyone would be able to tell if you have vim or emacs or both installed) so if you don't want to make this public, you can sent them to me directly (in case you trust me, of course). Best regards David Kalnischkies
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature