Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.9a-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I saw this a while ago, and on one machine spun it around for a while.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo nice apt-get dist-upgrade -s
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alsa-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
alsa-base
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv alsa-utils (1.0.9a-4 Debian:testing) [alsa-base ]
Inst alsa-base [1.0.9b-2] (1.0.9b-4 Debian:testing)
Conf alsa-base (1.0.9b-4 Debian:testing)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo nice apt-get install alsa-utils udev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
udev is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
alsa-utils: Conflicts: udev (< 0.060) but 0.056-3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache policy alsa-utils udev
alsa-utils:
Installed: 1.0.9a-3
Candidate: 1.0.9a-4
Version Table:
1.0.9a-4 0
500 http://uriel testing/main Packages
*** 1.0.9a-3 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
udev:
Installed: 0.056-3
Candidate: 0.056-3
Version Table:
*** 0.056-3 0
500 http://uriel testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nice apt-cache policy udev
udev:
Installed: 0.056-3
Candidate: 0.056-3
Version Table:
0.068-2 0
400 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages
*** 0.056-3 0
900 http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages
990 http://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
(uriel has apt-cacher, thence the url)
The version in unstable appears to depend on a more recent kernel. So, it seems
to me, alsa-utils in uninstallable and if you happened to lose the old version
while upgrading alsa-base, you can't neatly get it back except by hunting for
it from the pool. (I couldn't find it, actually.)
So you'll end up with a host without alsa-mixer, alsaconf, alsactl etc. It
seems this has been so for a good while now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii dialog 1.0-20050306-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii libasound2 1.0.9-3 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii linux-sound-base 1.0.9b-4 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities
ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15 Linux PCI Utilities
ii whiptail 0.51.6-26 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
alsa-utils recommends no packages.
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