Re: Debian testing - uninstallable packages
Andrew M. Bishop wrote: [ I sent this to debian-testing a month ago, but the mailing list ] [ doesn't exist anymore - it is not archived at http://list.debian.org/ ] [ If there is a more appropriate list for this discussion let me know. ] The list does exist. For some reason it wasn't archived anymore, which I had changed recently. Check out http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-0109/. Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Debian testing - uninstallable packages
[ I sent this to debian-testing a month ago, but the mailing list ] [ doesn't exist anymore - it is not archived at http://list.debian.org/ ] [ If there is a more appropriate list for this discussion let me know. ] The debian FAQ (/usr/share/debian/FAQ) says the following: : Packages are installed into the `testing' directory after they have undergone : some degree of testing in unstable. They must be in sync on all architectures : where they have been built and mustn't have dependencies that make them : uninstallable; they also have to have fewer release-critical bugs than the : versions currently in testing. This way, we hope that `testing' is always : close to being a release candidate. I have seen a problem with two packages that I wanted to install from testing not being installable. These were gnumeric and gnucash, so I raised bug reports about them - currently unanswered. I realise that there may be other packages that are also uninstallable, so I wrote a script that parses /var/lib/dpkg/available and lists those packages that have unmet dependencies, recommendations or suggestions for packages that are not available. The script only checks the package names, not the version numbers, so they may be more problems. The list below was compiled from the current status of debian testing as found in the following sources.list today. sources.list deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian woody main deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian woody contrib deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian woody non-free deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian woody non-US/main deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian woody non-US/contrib deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian woody non-US/non-free sources.list Package RelationDependency (not available) --- -- glcpudepends on libcommonc++1 gnucash depends on libguile9 gnucash depends on guile1.4 gnucash depends on guile1.4-slib gnucash depends on libgwrapguile0 gnumeric depends on libgal4 mozilla depends on mozilla-browser mozilla depends on mozilla-mailnews roxen-ssldepends on pike-crypto sphinx2-bin depends on sphinx2-hmm-6k Package RelationRecommendation (not available) --- -- alamin-serverrecommends gnokii bibletimerecommends sword-dict bibletimerecommends sword-comm cdrecord recommends mkisofs cjk-latexrecommends freetype1-tools guile1.4-doc recommends guile1.4 ibcs-source-2.0 recommends kernel-source-2.0.36 | kernel-source-2.0.38 kernel-patch-2.4.0-ia64 recommends kernel-source-2.4.0 kernel-patch-2.4.1-ia64 recommends kernel-source-2.4.1 kernel-patch-2.4.3-arm recommends kernel-source-2.4.3 kernel-patch-2.4.4-ia64 recommends kernel-source-2.4.4 kernel-patch-2.4.5-ia64 recommends kernel-source-2.4.5 kernel-patch-2.4.5-s390 recommends kernel-source-2.4.5 mozilla recommends mozilla-psm pipsecd recommends userlink quickppp recommends pppd tpctlrecommends tpctl-modules unp recommends unace webmin-ssl recommends webmin-core zope-pagetemplates recommends zope-parsedxml Package RelationSuggestion (not available) --- -- alsa-basesuggestsalsadriver alsa-utils suggestsalsadriver alsa-utils-0.4 suggestsalsadriver alsa-utils-0.5 suggestsalsadriver ant suggestsjmf aolserversuggestsaolserver-postgres aolserversuggestsopenacs atoolsuggestsbzip cbedic suggestskbedic cdrtoaster suggestsmkisofs cpuburn suggestskernel-patch-badram crafty suggestscraftywatcher cupsys-clientsuggestskdelibs3-cups cvsbook suggestscvs-doc cxterm-gbsuggestsintlfonts-chinese cxterm-jis suggestsintlfonts-japanese dhelp
Re: Debian testing - uninstallable packages
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:15:45PM +0100, Andrew M. Bishop wrote: [ I sent this to debian-testing a month ago, but the mailing list ] [ doesn't exist anymore - it is not archived at http://list.debian.org/ ] Actually, the list still exists, and is available at http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/. Not sure why it doesn't seem to be listed amongst all the other mailing lists. I have seen a problem with two packages that I wanted to install from testing not being installable. These were gnumeric and gnucash, so I raised bug reports about them - currently unanswered. Right. There're a few packages that aren't installable in woody. There're also a number that're out of sync, or that have RC bugs, or whatever. It's not perfect, and it shouldn't really be expected to be. FWIW, there're accurate lists of uninstallable packages (which does take into account versions and conflicts, but ignores recommends and suggests) at http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Freedom itself was attacked this morning by faceless cowards. And freedom will be defended.'' Condolences to all involved. pgpw6ma3ue9Aa.pgp Description: PGP signature
