Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-07-10 20:52:15 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> > But this can be preferable if the removed package has security bugs >> > and has been removed for this reason

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-07-10 20:52:15 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But this can be preferable if the removed package has security bugs > > and has been removed for this reason (the user wouldn't be aware of > > that with the current behav

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Beside: Detecting this would be pretty hard and full of cornercases > > (especially as yours is already one as it crosses source-package > > boundaries): > > It wouldn't be that great if a package is removed from testing and the

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-07-10 15:43:33 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > clang is no longer in unstable (the package – and its not the > reason, but I wouldn't expect it to work based on that) clang is still in unstable: $ apt-show-versions -a clang clang:amd64 1:3.0-6.2 install ok installed clang:amd64 1:3.0-

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > # apt-get install clang > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > clang : Depends: clang-3.2 (>= 3.2-1~) but it is not going to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > This is due to: cla

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: apt Version: 0.9.9 Severity: normal When a package is removed from Debian, it breaks the upgrade system. For instance: # apt-get install clang The following packages have unmet dependencies: clang : Depends: clang-3.2 (>= 3.2-1~) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct