On 4 May 2012 11:48, Witold Baryluk <[email protected]> wrote: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > aptitude : Depends: libapt-pkg4.10 but it is not installable > Depends: libept1 but it is not going to be installed > Recommends: aptitude-doc-en but it is not going to be installed or > aptitude-doc > Recommends: libparse-debianchangelog-perl but it is not going to > be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > This is because libapt-pkg4.12 is installed due new version of apt. > > On other architectures aptitude have correct dependencies, but on alpha and > few others, > it still depends on libapt-pkg4.10 which was actually virtually provided by > apt. > > Now with newer version of apt, libapt-pkg is separate real package, > and apt is depending on it. It also cannot be coinstalled with previous > versions (because it was virtual is one of the reasons). Hello The archs involved are: alpha, m68k, mipsel, powerpcspe, s390x, sh4, sparc64. Due to the bump from libapt-pkg4.10 to 4.12 aptitude needs to be rebuilt on each arch to update. This has not yet happened on the effected archs. According to buildd logs[1,2] the main blocker for most is uninstallable build depends: directly, either debhelper or libept-dev, but you can follow the chain of uninstallable dependencies back from there. [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=aptitude [2] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=aptitude The only official archs involved -- mipsel, s390x -- have build failures. mipsel is due to a FTBFS which is fixed in the next release; 390x provides no information on why it failed, but the buildds are noticeably behind on that arch anyway. This bug will be closed with the next upload, which should bring all official archs back to a usable state. The unofficial ports should eventually catch up and this is not a problem specific to aptitude. > > I think aptitude should just depend on libapt-pkg4.12 probably. > Why alpha, hppa and this few other archs (most of them are unofficial ports) > have > this separate depenency in first place? Aptitude build-depends on libapt-pkg-dev which will bring in whatever the current libapt-pkg is. IMO the current dependency is versioned correctly. Regards _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
