Hello. I haphazardly did a dist-upgrade today on my Debian Sid machine without paying attention and have fallen into a pit. Is my only option right now to wait till the reverent packages have been upgraded and pushed to 5.7.4 or 5.8.1?
20160829-201153 rubin110@lines:~/temp$ sudo aptitude install plasma-desktop The following NEW packages will be installed: accountsservice{a} bluedevil{a} cracklib-runtime{a} fonts-oxygen{a} frameworkintegration{a} ieee-data{a} kde-cli-tools{ab} kde-cli-tools-data{a} kde-config-gtk-style{a} kde-config-sddm{a} kded5{a} kdoctools5{a} kgamma5{a} khelpcenter{a} khotkeys{a} khotkeys-data{a} kinfocenter{a} kinit{a} kmenuedit{a} kscreen{a} ksysguard{a} ksysguard-data{a} ksysguardd{a} kwrited{a} libaccountsservice0{a} libcln6{a} libcrack2{a} libgps22{a} libkf5activitiesexperimentalstats1{a} libkf5bluezqt-data{a} libkf5bluezqt6{a} libkf5jsembed-data{a} libkf5jsembed5{a} libkf5networkmanagerqt6{a} libkf5people-data{a} libkf5people5{a} libkf5peoplebackend5{a} libkf5peoplewidgets5{a} libkf5su-bin{a} libkf5su-data{a} libkf5su5{a} libkf5sysguard-bin{a} libkf5sysguard-data{a} libkf5xmlrpcclient-data{a} libkf5xmlrpcclient5{a} libkfontinst5{a} libkfontinstui5{a} libksgrd7{ab} libksignalplotter7{a} libkworkspace5-5{a} libplasma-geolocation-interface5{a} libpowerdevilcore2{a} libpowerdevilui5{a} libprocesscore7{ab} libprocessui7{ab} libpwquality-common{a} libpwquality1{a} libqalculate5-data{a} libqalculate5v5{a} libqt5clucene5{a} libqt5designer5{a} libqt5designercomponents5{a} libqt5help5{a} libtaskmanager5{a} libweather-ion7{a} libxcb-record0{a} muon-discover{a} muon-notifier{a} muon-updater{a} oxygen-sounds{ab} plasma-desktop plasma-desktop-data{a} plasma-discover{ab} plasma-discover-common{ab} plasma-discover-private{a} plasma-discover-updater{a} plasma-integration{ab} plasma-pa{a} plasma-workspace{a} polkit-kde-agent-1{ab} powerdevil{a} powerdevil-data{a} python3-pycurl{a} python3-pyqt5{a} python3-sip{a} python3-software-properties{a} qdbus-qt5{a} qml-module-org-kde-bluezqt{a} qml-module-org-kde-extensionplugin{a} qml-module-org-kde-kio{a} qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem{a} qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel{a} qml-module-qt-labs-settings{a} qml-module-qtquick-dialogs{a} qml-module-qtquick-privatewidgets{a} qttools5-dev-tools{a} sni-qt{a} software-properties-common{a} software-properties-kde{a} systemsettings{a} user-manager{a} 0 packages upgraded, 101 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 40.5 MB of archives. After unpacking 173 MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: milou : Breaks: plasma-workspace (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5.1-1 is to be installed kde-cli-tools : Breaks: plasma-desktop (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5-1 is to be installed Breaks: plasma-workspace (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5.1-1 is to be installed libprocesscore7 : Breaks: plasma-workspace (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5.1-1 is to be installed plasma-discover-common : Breaks: plasma-discover-private (< 5.7.0) but 5.6.5-1 is to be installed Breaks: plasma-discover-updater (< 5.7.0) but 5.6.5-1 is to be installed plasma-discover : Breaks: plasma-discover-private (< 5.7.0) but 5.6.5-1 is to be installed Breaks: plasma-discover-updater (< 5.7.0) but 5.6.5-1 is to be installed breeze : Breaks: plasma-desktop (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5-1 is to be installed kactivitymanagerd : Breaks: plasma-desktop (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5-1 is to be installed libksgrd7 : Breaks: plasma-workspace (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5.1-1 is to be installed oxygen-sounds : Breaks: plasma-desktop (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5-1 is to be installed libkscreenlocker5 : Breaks: plasma-workspace (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5.1-1 is to be installed plasma-integration : Breaks: plasma-desktop (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5-1 is to be installed polkit-kde-agent-1 : Breaks: plasma-desktop (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5-1 is to be installed libprocessui7 : Breaks: plasma-workspace (< 4:5.7) but 4:5.6.5.1-1 is to be installed The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) kinfocenter [Not Installed] 2) muon-discover [Not Installed] 3) plasma-desktop [Not Installed] 4) plasma-discover [Not Installed] 5) plasma-discover-common [Not Installed] 6) plasma-workspace [Not Installed] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: 7) plasma-desktop-data recommends plasma-workspace On 27 August 2016 at 15:10, Luigi Toscano <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> wrote: > Luigi Toscano ha scritto: > > Martin Steigerwald ha scritto: > >> Am Samstag, 27. August 2016, 17:15:30 CEST schrieb Luigi Toscano: > >>> Maximiliano Curia ha scritto: > >>>> plasma-workspace tests were failling in the 5.7.[0-2] releases and we > >>>> decided to wait till this gets fixed, this was finally fixed in 5.7.3 > (by > >>>> moving the failling tests to a non packageable project). By that time > 5.8 > >>>> was announced to be the first lts, so it makes sense to wait for 5.8, > >>>> which should be released "real soon now"(tm). > >>> > >>> As this is no more true, as most of Plasma 5.7.x landed in unstable > breaking > >>> the remaining 5.6 bits, would be possible to have the missing bits > (from a > >>> quick glance, plasma-desktop, plasma-workspace and khotkeys for sure)? > >> > >> I just saw on debian-qt-kde-ml, plasma-workspace 5.7.4 uploaded again > after an > >> initial reject due to source only upload, so if ftpmasters accept it > this > >> time, at least this one is coming. > >> > > > > The reject afaik does not depend on the package being source-only; it > > introduces new binaries. > > I stand corrected sorry. The reject was, as you wrote, because it was a > source > only-upload for a package with new binaries and that should have gone > through NEW. > > > > > Maybe a way to solve this is a push to experimental, so that a block of > new > > packages can "decant" in experimental without breaking the rest of the > world. > > > > This is still a valid suggestion. > > -- > Luigi > > -- Rubin ru...@starset.net