Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-11 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2013-07-10 20:52:15 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: But this can be preferable if the removed package has security bugs and has been removed for

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: apt Version: 0.9.9 Severity: normal When a package is removed from Debian, it breaks the upgrade system. For instance: # apt-get install clang The following packages have unmet dependencies: clang : Depends: clang-3.2 (= 3.2-1~) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: # apt-get install clang The following packages have unmet dependencies: clang : Depends: clang-3.2 (= 3.2-1~) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. This is

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-07-10 15:43:33 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: clang is no longer in unstable (the package – and its not the reason, but I wouldn't expect it to work based on that) clang is still in unstable: $ apt-show-versions -a clang clang:amd64 1:3.0-6.2 install ok installed clang:amd64

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Beside: Detecting this would be pretty hard and full of cornercases (especially as yours is already one as it crosses source-package boundaries): It wouldn't be that great if a package is removed from testing and the

Bug#715557: apt: upgrade system is broken when a package is removed from Debian

2013-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-07-10 20:52:15 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: But this can be preferable if the removed package has security bugs and has been removed for this reason (the user wouldn't be aware of that with the current behavior of