Package: debdelta Version: 0.39trl Severity: normal This seems to be happening because of the pinning that I have put on certain packages. If I remove my /etc/apt/preferences file, debdelta-upgrade works.
preferences file attached -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (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/dash Versions of packages debdelta depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-12 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii python 2.6.5-11 interactive high-level object-orie ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages debdelta recommends: ii bsdiff 4.3-10 generate/apply a patch between two ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.96.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii xdelta 1.1.3-9 A diff utility which works with bi ii xdelta3 0y.dfsg-1 A diff utility which works with bi debdelta suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
Package: * Pin: origin qt-kde.debian.net Pin-Priority: 101 Package: * Pin: origin pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org Pin-Priority: 1 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 101 Package: lintian Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: debian-policy Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: fusecompress Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: pytagsfs Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: developers-reference Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: maint-guide Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: doc-debian Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64 Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: linux-headers-2.6-amd64 Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: linux-image-amd64 Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: linux-headers-amd64 Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64 Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: debian-keyring Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: python-argparse Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: systemtap Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: apt-offline Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: tp-smapi-source Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 1001
