Control: tag -1 confirmed Hey James,
James Cowgill [2015-05-22 0:18 +0100]: > I have a system running sid which I haven't upgraded for a few weeks. I > was greeted with this just now (apt-get upgrade fails as well, but I > used install to make the output smaller). > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential > package util-linux:i386 due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often > bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak > option. Ah, thanks for your report! I hit a similar error yesterday on our initial attempt with using the usual Breaks+Replaces, which causes apt to blow up like that. We fixed that by using Depends+Replaces instead. I'm fairly sure this upgrade error would already have affected the previous util-linux 2.26.2-3, as that introduced something similar: Breaks:/Replaces: sysvinit-utils (<< 2.88dsf-59.1~) I'm now doing some experiments whether changing the Breaks: into a Depends: works in all cases (upgrade from jessie, testing, and previous unstable); if it does, we can use that (although it's conceptually a bit weird, util-linux does not really need sysvinit-utils), otherwise we'll just use Replaces: only; that will avoid any Breaks/Depends which confuse apt, and will technically work although it doesn't satisfy the letter of the Debian policy. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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