Bug#651947: aptitude has buggy dependency resolution.

2016-04-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, 2011-12-13 08:55 dE .: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.4-1.2 Severity: important Aptitude suggests removal of 284 packages in favor of keeping update-inetd at version 4.40 which it complains as being held, which is not true. Corresponding attachment aptitude_bug. As noted in another

Bug#651947: aptitude has buggy dependency resolution.

2011-12-17 Thread dE .
On 12/17/11 12:27, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Everything there looks in order. I note that the being kept back message is output if the dependency could be upgraded, but isn't. It does not have to be in the hold state. Looks like this is probable some dependency entanglement. I'm pretty much

Bug#651947: aptitude has buggy dependency resolution.

2011-12-16 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Everything there looks in order. I note that the being kept back message is output if the dependency could be upgraded, but isn't. It does not have to be in the hold state. Looks like this is probable some dependency entanglement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#651947: aptitude has buggy dependency resolution.

2011-12-14 Thread dE .
On 12/14/11 11:36, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Hi Aptitude suggests removal of 284 packages in favor of keeping update-inetd at version 4.40 which it complains as being held, which is not true. Can you verify this with: $ grep -A 4 update-inetd /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates which should indicate

Bug#651947: aptitude has buggy dependency resolution.

2011-12-13 Thread dE .
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.4-1.2 Severity: important Aptitude suggests removal of 284 packages in favor of keeping update-inetd at version 4.40 which it complains as being held, which is not true. Corresponding attachment aptitude_bug. Also, aptitude states perl-base: Conflicts:

Bug#651947: aptitude has buggy dependency resolution.

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hi Aptitude suggests removal of 284 packages in favor of keeping update-inetd at version 4.40 which it complains as being held, which is not true. Can you verify this with: $ grep -A 4 update-inetd /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates which should indicate something other than `State: 2'. Also, what