Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp
in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a
dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed.
When I mark yelp as upgradeable, it says that it would break
scrollkeeper. So I tell it to purge scrollkeeper, but it again says it
breaks some dependencies:
The following packages depend on scrollkeeper and will be broken by its
removal:
* gnome-applets-data depends on scrollkeeper (provided by rarian-compat
0.8.1-2, rarian-compat 0.8.1-1)
* gnome-panel-data depends on scrollkeeper (provided by rarian-compat
0.8.1-2, rarian-compat 0.8.1-1)
* gnome-system-monitor depends on scrollkeeper (provided by rarian-compat
0.8.1-2, rarian-compat 0.8.1-1)
* gnome-user-guide depends on scrollkeeper (provided by rarian-compat
0.8.1-2, rarian-compat 0.8.1-1)
* synaptic depends on scrollkeeper (provided by rarian-compat 0.8.1-2,
rarian-compat 0.8.1-1)
Now I don't need those packages, but when I mark them to be purged and
press g, aptitude says it wants to install rarian-compat and to keep
above packages, except for synaptic, at their current state. Now when
looking at the list what it is going to do, it doesn't say it will
keep these packages in their current states. Instead, it will remove
scrollkeeper, ugrade 66 packages (including yelp) and install 3 new
ones to satisfy dependencies.
Why is this so confusing? Why does it say it will keep some packages
in their states but then doesn't say that it will do that? It doesn't
mention the packages it said to keep in their states at all now.
Aptitude always acts so weird :( What's the problem with it? Dselect
always just did what I wanted it to do.
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