Thankyou for this information - I escaped this upgrade hell by killing off just libsane:i386 (I didn't need to do any other purging etc) and then full-upgrading. I'm in control of my system again!
On 07/07/15 16:03, Leszek Godlewski wrote: > Hi Niko, > > Just letting you know I was able to resolve this by purging the perl i386 > packages with dpkg and removing libsane:i386, which (indirectly) caused the > dependency on i386 perl in the first place and which I don't need. My > system remains functional after this change and I was able to successfully > run an aptitude full-upgrade. > > Regards, > > Leszek > > niedz., 31.05.2015 o 17:24 użytkownik Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> napisał: > >> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:04:38AM +0000, Leszek Godlewski wrote: >> >>> In that case I will try to live with this conflict for a while longer and >>> hope for a resolution by 5.22. Or maybe I could grab the packages from >>> experimental? It's a home workstation, not a production server, so I >> guess >>> unless there are severe bugs I could tolerate the instability. >> >> Unfortunately the 5.22 packages alone aren't really fit for anything else >> than a chroot for experimenting. All binary Perl modules need a rebuild >> between Perl versions, and there isn't a way to provide such an overlay >> currently. So much of your system would suddenly become uninstallable, >> unless you rebuild those packages yourself. >> >>> I was simply updating from an older version of testing. It's been several >>> weeks since the last update, though, probably more than a month. >> >> That's weird. I just tried an upgrade from stable on amd64 with a few >> i386 packages installed, which should be pretty close to that, with no >> problems, so I suppose it's some specific combination of packages that >> breaks it. >> >> I expect there's a way out of your current situation, but I'm not really >> an expert on that part. I'd expect it to work with apt-get (rather than >> aptitude) and removing a few packages, but it sounded like you've already >> tried that. >> >> You might want to try the debian-user list for help. >> -- >> Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org >> >
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