On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:24:58AM +0200, Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.11.4-1, 0.4.11.6-1 > > With today's updates, sid's wengophone requires "libgnutls26 (>= > 2.4.0-0)", not satisfied by lenny, but by unstable (2.4.0-2) and > experimental (2.4.0-1), which poses a problem to aptitude after selecting > everything for upgrade. In that case, for some strange reason the > packages from experimental are considered better than the more recent ones > in unstable ! Note the identical aptitude scores, despite apt assigning > correct scores to the versions: > > # LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy libgnutls26 > libgnutls26: > Installed: 2.2.5-1 > Candidate: 2.2.5-1 > Version table: > 2.4.0-2 0 > 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages > 2.4.0-1 0 > 1 http://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages > *** 2.2.5-1 0 > 990 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
aptitude considers all "extra" (i.e., non-default) versions to be equal when scoring dependency solutions. That's probably what's happening here. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
