On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:50:34PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > Hi Josh, > > 2009-08-11 04:02 Josh Triplett: > >Package: aptitude > >Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2 > >Severity: normal > > > >I have a metapackage josh-gui, which among other things depends on > >totem-xine and conflicts with totem-gstreamer. Various packages depend > >on totem-gstreamer | totem-xine, such as gnome-desktop-environment and > >totem-plugins. Whenever a new version of totem comes out, and I attempt > >to upgrade to it (usually by hitting + on the "video" section including > >totem-common, totem-xine, and totem-plugins), aptitude gets confused: it > >attempts to pull in totem-gstreamer (despite not needing it to satisfy > >any dependencies, with totem-xine already installed), and it then > >correctly concludes that it has broken josh-gui. Furthermore, to fix > >this brokenness, it initially proposes removing josh-gui; its *second* > >solution does the right thing by choosing *not* to install > >totem-gstreamer in the first place. > > Have you seen this behaviour recently, with this package of yours or > others? > > The resolution system changed a lot in the years after this bug report, > specially with 0.6. I could attempt to reproduce a similar case with > other packages (totem-xine and -gstreamer are not in unstable now), but > if you continue to have a similar set-up it would be quicker / more > reliable to confirm if the behaviour it's still happening as you saw it > in the past.
I still see dependency resolution issues arise fairly often, where aptitude wants to remove half the world rather than making what seems like a more obvious choice. This specific situation went away when totem-xine did, though. Probably better to report new issues for new dependency resolution problems that apply to current Debian, rather than attempting to repurpose this six-year-old bug. - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
