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Hi Christoph,
2012-06-24 16:15 Christoph Groth:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8-1
Severity: normal
Very recently, the following problem occurred on my box which is running Debian
testing:
aptitude full-upgrade wanted to install texlive-fonts-extra (and many MBs of
packages that texlive-fonts-extra depends upon), though this was not necessary.
I believe that this happened because the new version of texpower in the package
repository depended on texlive-fonts-extra. However, the currently installed
version did not and texpower was going to be removed.
To work around this problem, one can remove texpower manually before the
dist-upgrade.
The thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/438192/focus=438240
deals with this bug.
Please find below the output of "apt-cache show texpower" and "aptitude -D
full-upgrade" at the time when the problem occurred.
# apt-cache show texpower
Package: texpower
Source: texlive-extra
Version: 2012.20120611-1
Installed-Size: 122
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-ma...@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: texlive-latex-extra (>= 2011), texlive-fonts-extra (>= 2011), dpkg (>=
1.14.18), tex-common (>= 3)
Description-en: TeX Live: transitional dummy package
This is a transitional package for texpower to ensure proper
upgrade to texlive-latex-extra. It can be safely removed after the
installation is complete.
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Description-md5: b863056b4a7b5e56fe8fa0584f982b26
Tag: office::presentation, role::plugin, use::editing, use::typesetting,
use::viewing, works-with-format::pdf, works-with-format::tex,
works-with::text
Section: oldlibs
Priority: extra
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texpower_2012.20120611-1_all.deb
Size: 50182
MD5sum: 32da967f51ce328aace720b60a0346e1
SHA1: d0d9f2f07e803707f5786d74d35666e8b833c299
SHA256: fc5a2bf449d5fbd46e7b9dec68150057f83b955e733c815ccf589d11133f23f4
Package: texpower
Source: texlive-extra
Version: 2012.20120516-1
Installed-Size: 122
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-ma...@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: texlive-latex-extra (>= 2011), texlive-fonts-extra (>= 2011), dpkg (>=
1.14.18), tex-common (>= 3)
Description-en: TeX Live: transitional dummy package
This is a transitional package for texpower to ensure proper
upgrade to texlive-latex-extra. It can be safely removed after the
installation is complete.
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Description-md5: b863056b4a7b5e56fe8fa0584f982b26
Tag: office::presentation, role::plugin, use::editing, use::typesetting,
use::viewing, works-with-format::pdf, works-with-format::tex,
works-with::text
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texpower_2012.20120516-1_all.deb
Size: 50062
MD5sum: 3fbd47f2ae3daf32678c88c86715e24f
SHA1: 405a03360c98194e3899ffa9217a580d86c14abf
SHA256: 95d4ab72f7223e4003c0e4fc538eab2db1bc4f663eb6d02daad5f8e3e91bd1fc
Package: texpower
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 387
Maintainer: Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.2-7.1
Replaces: dvips-landscapeplus, latex-automata, tpmultiinc
Provides: dvips-landscapeplus, latex-automata, tpmultiinc
Depends: texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended, dpkg (>= 1.14.18),
tex-common (>= 2.00)
Recommends: xpdf | pdf-viewer, texpower-manual
Suggests: texpower-examples
Conflicts: dvips-landscapeplus, latex-automata, tpmultiinc
Conffiles:
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/texpower/tpoptions.cfg 2cccd1df038528659eaeb6b905cfb085
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/texpower/tpcolors.cfg e3254d02d2f07ca8ba9eaa8c9436d358
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/texpower/tpsettings.cfg fd92794901dc34d05ddb40ebdeb5879f
/etc/texmf/dvips/config.landscapeplus 87f912f00a7025fad36077beffbf23d7
Description: Macros for creating professional presentations with LaTeX
TeXPower is a bundle of style and class files for creating dynamic
online presentations with LaTeX.
.
It is the most complete macro package in this way and therefore in its
features quite unique.
.
This package also contains some additional packages:
- latex-automata: Create "automata" for computer science (currently
DFA and Mealy)
- tpmultiinc: macros to create "incremental images" in presentations
- dvips-landscapeplus: better paper sizes for a4 and letter (landscape)
# aptitude -D full-upgrade
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fonts-comfortaa{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-artemisia{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-complutum{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-didot{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-neohellenic{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-olga{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-solomos{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-inconsolata{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-junicode{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-linuxlibertine{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra, S: python-docutils)
fonts-oflb-asana-math{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-sil-gentium{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra, R: fonts-sil-gentium-basic)
fonts-sil-gentium-basic{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
ipython-notebook-common{a} (D: ipython-notebook)
libgegl-0.2-0{a} (D: gimp) libnspr4 libnss3
otf-freefont{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra) texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-fonts-extra-doc{a} (R: texlive-fonts-extra)
texlive-xetex{a} (R: fonts-oflb-asana-math)
valgrind-dbg{a} (R: valgrind)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libgegl-0.1-0{u} (D: gimp)
texpower{u} (R: texlive-latex-extra, R: texpower-manual)
texpower-manual{u} (R: texpower)
The following packages will be upgraded:
alsa-utils audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data
autopoint browser-plugin-gnash bsdmainutils bsdutils
debian-archive-keyring dict dictionaries-common dmidecode gdb-doc
gettext gettext-base gimp gimp-data glib-networking
glib-networking-common glib-networking-services gnash gnash-common
gnome-themes-standard gsettings-desktop-schemas gvfs gvfs-backends
gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs ipython ipython-doc
ipython-notebook ipython-qtconsole klibc-utils kmod libaprutil1
libasound2 libasound2-dev libasound2-plugins libasprintf0c2
libaudclient2 libaudcore1 libavcodec53 libavformat53 libavutil51
libblkid1 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libdnet libevent-2.0-5 libfftw3-3
libgettextpo0 libgimp2.0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin
libglib2.0-data libglib2.0-dev libklibc libkmod2 libkpathsea6
liblcms1 libmount1 libmysqlclient16 libnautilus-extension1a
libnewt0.52 libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libopenmpi-dev libopenmpi1.3
libperl5.14 libpostproc52 libproxy0 libptexenc1 libpulse0
libsmbclient libswscale2 libtdb1 libuuid1 libwbclient0 libxapian22
libxi-dev libxi6 libxml-libxml-perl libxml2 libxml2-utils libyelp0
linux-headers-3.2.0-2-amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-2-common
linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 linux-libc-dev logrotate lsb-base
lsb-release module-init-tools mount music123 myspell-pl
mysql-common openmpi-bin openmpi-checkpoint openmpi-common perl
perl-base perl-doc perl-modules python-gi python-gobject
python-pyexiv2 python-pyexiv2-doc python-pyparsing python-zmq sudo
texlive texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common
texlive-doc-base texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils
texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
texlive-generic-recommended texlive-lang-dutch texlive-lang-french
texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-metapost
texlive-metapost-doc texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-publishers
texlive-publishers-doc texlive-science texlive-science-doc
traceroute update-inetd util-linux valgrind whiptail xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-volumed xinput xserver-common xserver-xephyr
xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-synaptics yelp-xsl
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
gnome-keyring (R: gvfs-backends, S: libgnome-keyring0)
uuid-runtime (R: libuuid1)
154 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,130 MB of archives. After unpacking 781 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
In the text above, texlive-fonts-extra is marked as new install and not
automatic (lacks {a} as the others have).
It might have been scheduled to be installed in a previous session,
perhaps as part of a previous "resolution" of conflicts: e.g. aptitude
wanting to upgrade texpower, you refusing and marking some packages as
to be removed, etc.
It's not even necessary that you took the conscious decision to choose a
solution involving to install texlive-fonts-extra -- sometimes aptitude
messes up the automatically installed flag (there are many open bugs
about that), so maybe it went from "automatically install
texlive-fonts-extra" to "install texlive-fonts-extra", and thus it
produces the results above.
In any case, in the screen above texlive-fonts-extra is not marked to be
an automatic install, so it is expected that aptitude full-upgrade
intends to install it and all its dependencies. Having stopped there,
done "aptitude purge texlive-fonts-extra" before asking for full-upgrade
would probably have unmarked it as a new installation as well and
produced the same result than removing texpower. (Or equivalently,
firing up the interactive resolver and asking texlive-fonts-extra to
remain uninstalled).
Maybe it's indeed a bug in the resolver, but it's quite difficult to
test that scenario right now. Have you seen the behaviour lately with
this or other packages?
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
