Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Hi all,
Another example of a lower priority package being favored over a higher
priority package when manually upgrading workrave from 1.8.5 to 1.9.0, using
workrave.
The interactive text interface suggests that an Ubuntu package should
be
installed:
libcairomm-1.0-1 [1.6.0-1 (testing, now) -> 1.6.4-1 (intrepid)]
even though the package of libcairomm-1.0-1 in the Debian repository
has
higher priority:
-----------------
# apt-cache policy libcairomm-1.0-1
libcairomm-1.0-1:
Installed: 1.6.0-1
Candidate: 1.6.0-1
Version table:
1.6.4-1 0
50 http://ftp.egr.msu.edu unstable/main Packages
1.6.4-1 0
30 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
*** 1.6.0-1 0
990 http://ftp.egr.msu.edu testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-----------------
On the other hand he command-line resolver "does the right thing" by
suggesting that the higher priority Debian package be installed:
(key line) libcairomm-1.0-1 [1.6.0-1 (testing, now) -> 1.6.4-1 (unstable)]
-----------------
# aptitude install -s workrave=1.9.0-6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
workrave
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgdome2-0{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
workrave-data{u}
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 411kB of archives. After unpacking 1188kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
workrave: Depends: libcairomm-1.0-1 (>= 1.6.4) but 1.6.0-1 is installed.
Depends: workrave-data (= 1.9.0-6) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Upgrade the following packages:
libcairomm-1.0-1 [1.6.0-1 (testing, now) -> 1.6.4-1 (unstable)]
workrave-data [1.8.5-7 (testing, now) -> 1.9.0-6 (unstable)]
-----------------
As far as I've tested (very rarely) the command-line resolver seems to
satisfy dependencies based on the priority of the packages. A step in the
right direction would to have the interactive text resolver use the same
logic as the command-line resolver.
Thanks!
C.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28
Debian Release: 5.0
990 testing security.debian.org
990 testing ftp.egr.msu.edu
980 testing mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
50 unstable ftp.egr.msu.edu
40 experimental http.us.debian.org
30 intrepid us.archive.ubuntu.com
25 unstable mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
================================================-+-====================
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 |
libc6 (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-16
libcwidget3 | 0.5.12-3
libept0 (>= 0.5.22) | 0.5.25
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.3.2-1
libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) | 5.7+20081213-1
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) | 2.0.18-2
libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1) | 4.3.2-1
libxapian15 | 1.0.7-4
zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) | 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12
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