On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman >> <pwise...@gmail.com> was heard to say: >>> I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has >>> disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far >>> unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install >>> those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following: >>> >>> # apt-get install libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 >> >> Which testing mirror are you using? That version of apt should be in >> testing. > > Alas, there has been an upload of apt to testing-security which broke > things, because that version of apt provides libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.6 > instead. I've informed the testing security team about the situation, > CC'ing bug #448249 which is responsible for this. > > Everyone suffering from this bug should downgrade apt to 0.7.20.2 or, > even better, 0.7.20.2+lenny1 from stable-security. Then aptitude, > synaptic and other reverse dependencies of libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 can > be reinstalled.
Tried that, but after downgrading, 'apt-get install aptitude' returns: # apt-get install aptitude Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: apt-utils: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.6 aptitude: Depends: libept0 (>= 0.5.26) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). In other words, apt-utils needs the apt version supplied by the latest apt package! (I'm on an amd64 system, which may be the difference.) And 'apt-get -f install' just wants to re-upgrade the apt package I just downgraded. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
