Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.3-1 Severity: normal Every time there's an upload of some hplip related packages they are broken for a few days in sid until the buildd catch up and every time aptitude wants to downgrade hpijs-ppds: | $ LANG=C sudo aptitude dist-upgrade | [sudo] password for rhertzog: | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done | Reading task descriptions... Done | The following packages are BROKEN: | gnome-system-tools hpijs-ppds hplip | The following NEW packages will be installed: | libauthen-dechpwd-perl{a} libauthen-passphrase-perl{a} libcrypt-blowfish-perl{a} | libcrypt-des-perl{a} libcrypt-eksblowfish-perl{a} libcrypt-mysql-perl{a} | libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl{a} libcrypt-rijndael-perl{a} libcrypt-unixcrypt-xs-perl{a} | libdata-entropy-perl{a} libdata-float-perl{a} libdata-integer-perl{a} libdigest-md4-perl{a} | libdigest-perl{a} libmodule-runtime-perl{a} libparams-classify-perl{a} libscalar-number-perl{a} | The following packages will be REMOVED: | liboobs-1-3{a} | The following packages will be upgraded: | apt-file debian-maintainers g-wrap grub-common grub-pc guile-g-wrap hplip-data hplip-gui ikiwiki | libgwrap-runtime-dev libgwrap-runtime2 libsmbclient po-debconf python-sqlobject samba-common | smbclient smbfs system-tools-backends tzdata | The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: | libnet-openid-consumer-perl | 20 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 22.2MB of archives. After unpacking 1717kB will be used. | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | hplip: Depends: hplip-data (< 2.8.4.1) but 2.8.5-1 is to be installed. | gnome-system-tools: Depends: liboobs-1-3 (>= 2.19.91) but it is not installable | hpijs-ppds: Depends: hpijs (>= 2.8.5+2.8.5-1) but 2.8.4+2.8.4-1 is installed. | The following actions will resolve these dependencies: | | Keep the following packages at their current version: | hplip-data [2.8.4-1 (testing, now)] | liboobs-1-3 [2.20.0-1 (unstable, testing, now)] | system-tools-backends [2.4.2-1 (testing, now)] | | Downgrade the following packages: | hpijs-ppds [2.8.4+2.8.4-1 (testing, now) -> 2.6.10+1.6.10-4.2+lenny1 (testing)] | | Score is 2171 | | Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Responding "n" to see alternative scenario leads to more downgrades... while typing ": hpijs-ppds" works perfectly well: | Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] : hpijs-ppds | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | hplip: Depends: hplip-data (< 2.8.4.1) but 2.8.5-1 is to be installed. | gnome-system-tools: Depends: liboobs-1-3 (>= 2.19.91) but it is not installable | The following actions will resolve these dependencies: | | Keep the following packages at their current version: | hplip-data [2.8.4-1 (testing, now)] | liboobs-1-3 [2.20.0-1 (unstable, testing, now)] | system-tools-backends [2.4.2-1 (testing, now)] | | Score is 141 | | Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Aptitude should really only suggest downgrade as a last solution and ideally only when the current system is already broken. To duplicate the problem I've put my dpkg status file and the /var/lib/apt lists (and sources.list) in http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/aptitude-downgrade.tar.bz2 Cheers, PS: BTW looking at the info below, you might want to add a LC_ALL=C in the script that gathers those infos ;-) -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.3 compilé le May 27 2008 04:52:17 Compilateur : g++ 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-1) Compilé avec : version d'APT : 4 6 0 version de NCurses : 5.6 version de libsigc++ : 2.0.18 gestion d'Ept activée. versions des bibliothèques : version de NCurses : ncurses 5.6.20080503 version de cwidget : 0.5.11 version d'APT : 4.6.0 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0xb7e67000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e2b000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e24000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d34000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7cbc000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b49000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b34000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b1c000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a2e000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a09000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb79fc000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78ae000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78aa000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78a5000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f4c000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (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. 0.7.14 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.11-1 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.17 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080503-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.5-1 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.11.3-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii aptitude-doc-fr [aptitude-doc 0.4.11.3-1 French manual for aptitude, a term ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]