Hi Kevin, your question is better suited for one of the various support channels. Including but not limited to the debian-u...@lists.debian.org mailinglists, which are even available in different languages.
Some quick answers anyway: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Does this work and is aptitude the best way to update whilst ignoring > incorrect or even debatable dependencies or can apt-get do so too. The best way is to not choose this way. Or any other way suggested in this superuser thread. Packages usually have dependencies for a reason, not just because the maintainer is bored and wants users to waste diskspace, so ignoring them temporary is really bad, but in extreme cases might be necessary (hence, dpkg has a force option for it). Trying to ignore it for longer is a good way into misery and nobody will be able to help you (expect with a suggestion to reinstall system). So APT isn't even trying to offer an option (and I somehow doubt aptitude will do what you "expect"). > Is equiv a fast and easy solution? Its "fast and easy", I am not so sure about the "solution" part. > Currently I am getting fix broken on steam-launcher which wants > jockey-common -> polkit I heard that someone created a debian package (out of the ubuntu package) for steam, but I am not really interested enough to remember details, sorry. Most if not all of this stuff steam depends on should be available in debian, too, it will "just" have a different package name, so you really want to find out the names, not just fake the existence with equiv – steam will still require whatever the dependency provides, so it needs it installed and not just a fake package without content. > Also shouldn't security updates for existing packages update in any > case. What if something broke and the user didn't notice (background > task)? APT goes from one consistent system state to another. If your system ever reaches an inconsistent state you will usually have bigger problems than a pending security update as your system might not even boot anymore. Needless to mention that a background task can't just break your system, the user has to take some form of action to do it (like kill dpkg/APT while running, power outage, …) So you really want to fix this situation and reach a consistent state, from there you can easily install pending updates again. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caaz6_fa7p72ri3rbvkgjyz5xu726f1ndukw5iusjzjxdedb...@mail.gmail.com
