I can reproduce the problem in a VM: The dependencies look as following:
Package: sysvinit-utils Priority: required Depends: upstart (>= 0.6.3-4) Package: upstart Priority: required Pre-Depends: sysvinit-utils Because of the pre-depends apt would have to unpack and configure sysinit-utils before upstart, but upstart is a dependency of sysvinit- utils so it can not configure it until upstart is unpacked. Its actually worse, because both packages are really low in the dependency chain and util-linux (with essential=yes) needs them, apt wants to do a immediate configure on both of them. So even if the Pre-Depends sysvinit-utils becomes a normal depends apt will still error out unless it is called with "-o Apt::Immediate-Configure=false" (which is in itself dangerous). -- adept fails to upgrade from hardy -> karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
