2015-08-25 23:53 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>: > On 25/08/15 16:18, Michael Meskes wrote: > > And for the second time it > > destroyed my system by deinstalling a lot of packages, instead of > putting the > > conflicting packages on hold. > > That's the major issue here: packagekit and/or gnome-software (I'm not > sure which of them is the relevant part here, most likely PK) doesn't > understand apt holds,
PK does understand apt holds - only Aptitude doesn't set them correctly, see bug #683099 and the problem resolver that gets used is too > willing to remove packages. It would work fine for stable-updates, and > probably OK for testing most of the time, but unstable gets transient > uninstallability too often (particularly now!) for an approach that > simple to work PackageKit uses the very same resolver as apt itself does... A log file of what actually happened would be very helpful here, to determine the problem causing the package removal. -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
