[Pkg-e-devel] SOLVED: Re: [e-users] doing an upgrade just trashed e

[Christopher Barry]

Dunno. Bug somewhere.
 On Feb 24, 2014 3:22 PM, "Albin Tonnerre" <lutin at debian.org> wrote:

> > Reverse Depends:
> >   e17:i386,e17
> >   e17-dev,e17 0.17.3-3
> >   e17-dbg,e17 0.17.3-3
> >   e17-data,e17
> > Dependencies:
> > 0.17.3-3 - libasound2 (2 1.0.16) libc6 (2 2.14) libdbus-1-3 (2 1.0.2)
> > libecore-con1 (2 1.7.7) libecore-evas1 (2 1.7.7) libecore-file1 (2
> > 1.7.7) libecore-imf1 (2 1.7.7) libecore-input1 (2 1.7.7) libecore-ipc1
> > (2 1.7.7) libecore-x1 (2 1.7.7) libecore1 (2 1.7.7) libedbus1 (2 1.7.7)
> > libedje1 (2 1.7.4) libeet1 (2 1.6.0) libefreet1 (2 1.7.7) libeina1 (2
> > 1.7.4) libeio1 (2 1.7.4) libevas1 (2 1.7.7) libpam0g (2 0.99.7.1)
> > libxcb-keysyms1 (2 0.3.9) libxcb-shape0 (0 (null)) libxcb1 (0 (null))
> > e17-data (5 0.17.3-3) libevas1-engine-software-x11 (0 (null))
> > libedje-bin (0 (null)) dbus-x11 (0 (null)) pm-utils (0 (null))
> > enlightenment (0 (null)) enlightenment:i386 (0 (null)) e17:i386 (0
> > (null)) Provides: 0.17.3-3 - x-window-manager Reverse Provides:
> >
> > The first to report '(0 (null))' was libevas1-engine-software-x11,
> > which looked related to my error, so I tried to manually install it:
> >
> > # apt-get install libevas1-engine-software-x11
> >
> > which in fact needed to be installed, and that pulled in a bunch of
> > other stuff as well.
> >
> > Then I re-ran apt-cache, but it looked the same. So I stepped through
> > the rest of the packages that also had '(0 (null))' in the version.
> >
> > # apt-get install libedje-bin
> >
> > which also needed to be upgraded, and it pulled in some stuff too.
> >
> > The rest of the '(0 (null))' pkgs were okay.
> >
> > I flipped back to vt7, and tried logging in and it worked.
> > Whoo-Friggin-Hoo!!!
> >
> > THAT was stressful - I have work to do! :)
> >
> > NO IDEA why the package did not pull that stuff in right. I added the e
> > packages maintainers to this email so they can have a look.
>
> That's weird. I can't really see why something like that would happen.
> You shouldn't have been able to keep the e17 package if one the
> dependencies was missing...
> --
> Albin
>
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