Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 6 May 2009 15:16:54 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello All, > I guess I should have figured that out!! Thanks - that worked - I > have aptitude back, and apt and apt-utils are on hold, as you > recommend. For those affect by this issue, today apt and apt-utils both got upgrades (in tes

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Walter Lundby
Brad Rogers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 10:17:48 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: Hello Frank, Similar thing happened to me! Synaptic was also removed along with some Python utilities. Is this part of what put me in python apt hell? At

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Brad Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 10:17:48 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: Hello Frank, >Similar thing happened to me! Synaptic was also removed along with > some Python utilities. Attempting to upgrade apt or apt-utils causes stuff to get removed, including Sy

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-05-06 20:44 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> Everyone suffering from this bug should downgrade apt to 0.7.20.2 or, >>> even better, 0.7.20.2+lenny1 from stable-security.  T

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/09 19:44, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman >>> was heard to say: I did my

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-06 20:44 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> 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

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman >> was heard to say: >>> I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has >>> disappeared.  Attempts to apt-get insta

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-06 19:30 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Wed, 06 May 2009 16:56:23 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> 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 >

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.May.09, 13:30:07, Frank McCormick wrote: > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: sg3-utils bluez-gnome python-gst0.10 libmtp8 ... > > What to do ?? Mark as manually installed the packages you know you need and let it remove the rest. Rega

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 16:56:23 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > 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 te

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman > 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 depe

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman > 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 unme

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman 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 dependenci

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Patrick Wiseman wrote : > 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-

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 10:02:57 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > 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 insta

testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
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