Hello, 2010/7/15 Juhapekka Tolvanen <juht...@iki.fi>: > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, +11:03:58 EEST (UTC +0300), > Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> pressed some keys: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:46:54AM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: >> > Package: xbel-utils >> > Version: 0.8.4-10.1+lenny1 >> > Severity: grave >> > >> > This package depends on python-xml . Unfortunately the latest version >> > of python-xml depends on "python < 2.6" and Debian already has a >> > version of Python that breaks that rule. >> >> I think you're not getting the big picture here... >> >> python-xml has been removed from unstable/testing so it lives only in >> stable, where python 2.5 is the default. No-one will update it to make >> it work with 2.6 as default (given it's not part of python core). > > Do you mean that also xbel-utils will stop working in unstable Debian > and later on testing and stable, too?
yes, it was provided by python-xml that is now remove: please complain with the former maintainer (I'm not) in case you still need it, asking for a solution. >> > APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, >> > 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'unstable') > >> You have quite a broken setup here I found no reason to have teh >> stable suite while you use (and prefer) the under-development suites >> (testing and then unstable). > > I have released my apt-configs here: > > http://iki.fi/juhtolv/configs/debian/apt/ > > After downgrading umpteen packages I was able to install xbel-utils back. > > I swithced my configs to unstable (as seen in that file > 000README.txt). Then I gave commands "aptitude update" and "aptitude -Z -V > -f -D -v -v -v -v -v --without-recommends dist-upgrade". This is what > happened then: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > adesklets [0.6.1-5 -> 0.6.1-5+b1] gdesklets [0.36.1-3 -> > 0.36.1-4+b1] gimp [2.6.8-1 -> 2.6.10-1] <+12.3kB> gimp-data > [2.6.8-3 -> 2.6.10-1] <+1,790kB> > libgimp2.0 [2.6.8-3+b1 -> 2.6.10-1] <+119kB> python [2.5.4-9 -> > 2.6.5-7] <+106kB> python-minimal [2.6.5-5 -> 2.6.5-7] <+57.3kB> > python-sqlalchemy [0.6.1-1 -> 0.6.2-1] <+729kB> xgridfit [2.1-1 -> > 2.2a-1] <+90.1kB> > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > python-sqlalchemy-ext (R: python-sqlalchemy) > 9 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. > Need to get 3,273kB/21.2MB of archives. After unpacking 2,904kB will > be used. > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > python-xml: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.5-7 is to be installed. > The following actions will resolve these dependencies: > > Remove the following packages: > 1) python-xml > 2) xbel-utils again, your trying to install python from testing; python in stable is 2.5 while in testing is 2.6, that generates a conflict with python2.5-only pacakges like python-xml. There's nothing you can do about it. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
