reopen 799918 found 799918 0.7.3-1 thanks OK now full-upgrade prints "- libgdal1i, but 1.11.3+dfsg-1~exp1 is to be installed." twice! On the same line too. (Note I always use the CLI aptitude and never curses.)
qgis : Depends: libgdal.so.1-1.11.2 which is a virtual package, provided by: - libgdal1i, but 1.11.3+dfsg-1~exp1 is to be installed. - libgdal1i, but 1.11.3+dfsg-1~exp1 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) qgis Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) gdal-bin [1.11.2+dfsg-3 (now)] 2) libgdal1i [1.11.2+dfsg-3 (now)] 3) python-gdal [1.11.2+dfsg-3 (now)] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Upgrade the following packages: 1) gdal-bin [1.11.2+dfsg-3 (now) -> 1.11.2+dfsg-3+b1 (unstable)] 2) libgdal1i [1.11.2+dfsg-3 (now) -> 1.11.2+dfsg-3+b1 (unstable)] 3) python-gdal [1.11.2+dfsg-3 (now) -> 1.11.2+dfsg-3+b1 (unstable)] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y And indeed above there is now a glimmer of hope now, so we take it. Only to have our hopes dashed when a second run of full-upgrade shows that the above "following actions will resolve these dependencies" did not resolve anything: The following NEW packages will be installed: libhdf5-8{a} (D: libgdal1i) (for libgdal1i) The following packages will be upgraded: gdal-bin libgdal1i python-gdal 3 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/6,291 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,027 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: qgis : Depends: libgdal.so.1-1.11.2 which is a virtual package, provided by: - libgdal1i, but 1.11.3+dfsg-1~exp1 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) qgis Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) gdal-bin [1.11.2+dfsg-3+b1 (now, unstable)] 2) libgdal1i [1.11.2+dfsg-3+b1 (now, unstable)] 3) python-gdal [1.11.2+dfsg-3+b1 (now, unstable)] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n *** No more solutions available *** At least this time the twice printing is now once. MAFM> we could improve the message the main problem would remain, and MAFM> that is that the packages in their current state are not MAFM> installable anyway, and there is nothing that we can do from MAFM> aptitude's side to get it installed in your system. Then there is indeed a bug that should be reported to the package owner, and the message should say so. Also apt-get should say that a bug should be reported to the package owner.