On 15 June 2017 at 19:35, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:18:30PM +1000, Tom wrote: > > I've been having issues upgrading a standard Devuan Jessie install to > > Ascii. During upgrade, the task-xfce4-desktop package gets uninstalled > and > > can't be installed afterwards due to dependency problems. > > > > Jessie has tasksel=3.33+devuan1.0 and Ascii has tasksel=3.33+devuan0.3 > > which is preventing task-xfce4-desktop from being installed in Ascii. > This > > is also causing a number of xfce4-* and other packages to be marked as > not > > required and removable with apt-get autoremove. > > > > [cut] > > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > task-xfce-desktop : Depends: tasksel (= 3.33+devuan0.3) but > 3.33+devuan1.0 > > is to be installed > > Depends: xfce4 but it is not going to be installed > > Recommends: xfce4-mixer but it is not installable > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > Hi Tom, > > the unmet dependency there might not be tasksel (which is a virtual > package) rather a chain of deps which goes down to dbus. Since an > updated version of dbus is now available in ascii's repos, you should > be able to dist-upgrade to ascii (we will come back to tasksel as > well, in due course). > > My2Cents > > KatolaZ >
Hi Katola, I did the upgrade to Ascii yesterday before I sent the email after reading about the dbus package updates, so yes the dist-upgrade works but ends up with the large number of packages set for removal. Apologies for not mentioning that previously. tasksel doesn't appear to be a virtual package here. Is there any reason why tasksel in jessie has a higher version than tasksel in ascii? It will work if I purge and reinstall the tasksel package back to the lower version, but this shouldn't be required. root@devuan:~# dpkg --compare-versions 3.33+devuan1.0 gt 3.33+devuan0.3 root@devuan:~# echo $? 0 root@devuan:~# dpkg --compare-versions 3.33+devuan1.0 lt 3.33+devuan0.3 root@devuan:~# echo $? 1 On another note, since devuan doesn't yet have an interface similar to that of packages.debian.org, can I trust the output of "apt-cache policy" to tell me what's really in the master archive? I would like to ensure that I'm not getting incorrect package information for each release here from a misconfigured mirror somewhere. -- Tom
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