On 07-11-14 23:48, peter green wrote: > One thing that is almost certainly a factor is that wheezy's freepascal > can't remain installed on jessie, not because of anything to do with > jessie's freepascal package but because wheezy's freepascal package > conflicts with jessie's binutils.
Can you elaborate a little more, as I am sure I don't fully understand you. conflicts, as in debian/control? I don't think that is what you mean, so somewhere there is information lacking in the dependency resolving chain, no? > It may be that a stable update to > allow wheezy's freepascal to coexist with jessie's binutils is a good > idea (the fix is not massively intrusive and i've already backported it > for users of the raspberry pi foundation raspbian wheezy image which > ships an updated binutils). So what change in binutils is needed? What exactly is the problem? Have you already contacted the release manager(s)? Is this about the gold linker? As a side note, I recently uploaded fpc 2.4.6 to wheezy-backports, I assume the breakage is not the other way around, right? > What I don't understand is why apt is not removing fpc-2.6.0 and > upgrading fp-units-multimedia. I think this is because apt-get upgrade doesn't install new packages, only apt-get dist-upgrade does that. You see higher up in the logging that apt-get is holding back the (unversioned) fpc packages as they are dependencies of a "manually" installed packages. However, if I understand you correctly AND the conflict of fpc with binutils is stored somewhere also binutils should be held back IIUC, which indeed seems to be the case. Paul
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