Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.5.4-1 Severity: important Today trying to dist-upgrade I get this: $ LANG=C sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: locales The following packages have been automatically kept back: gimp-data libsvn-perl schroot-common The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: libpth20 The following NEW packages will be installed: libpth20 The following packages will be upgraded: comerr-dev debhelper e2fslibs e2fsprogs gdm gtk-gnutella libblkid1 libcomerr2 libdevmapper1.02.1 libevent1 libgpgme11 libss2 libuuid1 module-init-tools nfs-common seahorse vim vim-common vim-full vim-gui-common vim-runtime 22 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 12.7MB/29.7MB of archives. After unpacking 8485kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: locales: Depends: glibc-2.6-1 which is a virtual package. Resolving dependencies... *** ERROR: search aborted by fatal exception. You may continue searching, but some solutions will be unreachable.
Unexpectedly non-broken dependency gimp 2.2.15-2 -> {gimp-data 2.2.15-2}! (gimp-data 2.2.15-2 is installed) Abort. Effectively the locales package is broken on i386. Libc6 2.6 is not yet available but the arch:all locales package is and the previous version disappeared. $ LANG=C apt-cache policy libc6 libc6: Installed: 2.5-11 Candidate: 2.5-11 Version table: 2.6-0exp3 0 1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org experimental/main Packages *** 2.5-11 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.5-9+b1 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages $ LANG=C apt-cache policy locales locales: Installed: 2.5-11 Candidate: 2.6-1 Version table: 2.6-1 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages 2.6-0exp3 0 1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org experimental/main Packages *** 2.5-11 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.5-9 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/main Packages This is however no reason to interrupt the dist-upgrade. You should simply diagnose this and not upgrade the locales package. Note that aptitude safe-upgrade / upgrade is not affected. Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.5 0.7.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070707-1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070707-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]