Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1
Severity: important
I run testing, but need pidgin 2.5.5-1 (currently in unstable). To
avoid it pulling lots of unstable libraries, I rebuilt pidgin with
libraries from testing, put the binary package into my local file:
repository and installed. Now aptitude offers me the following every
time I run dist-upgrade:
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
pidgin (D: libgtk2.0-0)
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 702kB of archives. After unpacking 101kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
pidgin: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0) but 2.12.12-1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Upgrade the following packages:
pidgin [2.5.5-1 (now) -> 2.5.5-1 (<NULL>)]
Score is 80
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Note the <NULL>. If I agree to this, aptitude gets the package from
the local repository (exactly the one I currently have) and reinstalls
it, which, of course, doesn't improve the situation, and on the next
run dist-upgrade isn't any happier.
My homemade pidgin 2.5.5-1 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), which
is satisfied.
My apt.conf:
APT {
Default-Release "testing";
Cache-Limit "26777216";
};
Aptitude {
CmdLine::Show-Deps "true";
Autoclean-After-Update "true";
Parse-Description-Bullets "true";
};
No preferences file.
Details on pidgin versions:
$ apt-cache policy pidgin
pidgin:
Installed: 2.5.5-1
Candidate: 2.5.5-1
Version table:
2.5.5-1 0
500 http://ftp.no.debian.org unstable/main Packages
2.5.5-1 0
500 file: ./ Packages
*** 2.5.5-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.5.4-2 0
990 http://ftp.no.debian.org testing/main Packages
There are several problems here:
1. apt-cache doesn't seem to realize that the 2.5.5-1 at file: and the
one currently installed are the same. (Still doesn't realize even
after aptitude has “upgraded” it with itself.)
2. aptitude thinks that pidgin is broken because 2.5.5-1 in unstable
depends on a newer libgtk2.0-0, even though the bastard 2.5.5-1 I
actually have is happy with my libgtk2.0-0 from testing.
3. aptitude tries to resolve the unmet dependency by upgrading to
exactly what I currently have.
4. aptitude shows <NULL> for the repository of the proposed package.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Nov 20 2008 04:02:44
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090228
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7ef4000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7e26000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7de8000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7de1000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d1d000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7c59000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b01000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7aec000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ad3000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb79e4000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb79be000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb79b1000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7850000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb784c000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7847000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ef5000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.26 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-3 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090228-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.10-2 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-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.9 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
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