On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:08:40 -0400 The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2015-09-06 at 10:58, Hans wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > at the moment it looks like the repository is rather broken. If you > > want do an upgrade or change from stable to testing, or if you want > > to upgrade testing, be very carefully. Otherwise you might break > > your system! > > <snip massive console dump, apparently in German> > > > It looks for me, the whole testing repository has broken and buggy > > dependencies. If you want to try unstable instead: DON`T DO IT! > > Unstable is much worse using aptitude: It wants to deinstall lots > > and lots of applications related to kde4-libs. > > I'd guess that this would be due to the GCC-5 transition, which was > announced yesterday on debian-devel to be taking place that evening: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00146.html > > It would be a good idea to refrain from upgrading (or upgrading to) > testing until this shakes out. It's likely to be at least a few days, > but might not be more than a week or so, unless you need certain > specific packages. > I suspect it will be more than a few days. Unstable has been disrupted for weeks, and aptitude full-upgrade still shrugs and says 'I can't do it, do you want to have a try?' There are more than 150 packages stuck at the moment, on a system with just over 4000 installed. Apt-get dist-upgrade wants to pull about seventy packages, but some are libraries which will be replaced by new versions. Gimp and gnome-mplayer are in the list, which I'm not willing to give up yet. If I get bored, I might mess around with synaptic to see if I can upgrade a few, but clearly there is still significant trouble. OK, I've got it down to 120 packages stuck, almost all KDE and libreoffice, but with another small logjam around aptitude and synaptic. I did hit a small jackpot, upgrading one minor package which brought more than a dozen other packages with it, packages which themselves wouldn't upgrade without a lot of grief. I have in the past fixed logjams of twenty or thirty packages simply by doing the upgrades in the correct order, a level of complexity beyond aptitude, but this lot isn't going to go so easily. Things are improving, about a week ago there were more than two hundred stuck, and as you say, all the compiler-related stuff has cleared. -- Joe
