On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:40:01 +0200 Alex Moonshine <[email protected]> wrote:
> > How about waiting a few weeks before dist-upgrading on sid? Solves > all problems just as well. No, it doesn't, sometimes a judicious bit of butchery is required to clear a dependency jam. I waited for quite a while recently, when apt-get wanted to rip out a fair number of packages which I use, and aptitude just threw up its virtual hands and told me to do the job myself. Eventually I got bored with waiting, and went with apt-get, managing to restore everything essential afterwards, because apt-get wasn't clever enough to see the right upgrade path. Aptitude was clever enough but not powerful enough to deal with the number of packages involved. It turned out that all the packages were present and OK, but that the sheer number of them which needed to be upgraded at the same time led to some very difficult dependency webs. -- Joe
