Bug#522201: closed by Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> (Re: Bug#522201: upgrade followed by dist-upgrade breaks squeeze)

[Carl Greco]

Problem with squeeze distribution continues.
I installed todays daily updates.
> digital: sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   initramfs-tools libcap2 liblapack3gf libsemanage1 myspell-en-us
>   openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us policycoreutils python-semanage
> 8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 9272kB of archives.
> After this operation, 1741kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Then installed the packages that were inadvertently removed during the 
update yesterday.  The gnome-network-admin and gnome-system-tools were 
installed OK but note all the packages which apt thinks are no longer 
required like gnome-core.
> digital: sudo apt-get -s install gnome-network-admin 
> gnome-system-tools liboobs-1-4 system-tools-backends
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> liboobs-1-4 is already the newest version.
> liboobs-1-4 set to manually installed.
> system-tools-backends is already the newest version.
> system-tools-backends set to manually installed.
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>   espeak ekiga gcalctool libpth20 gnuchess-book gnome-nettool
>   gnome-games-extra-data libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 libgail-gnome-module 
> libportaudio2
>   pkg-config ncompress libgnome-mag2 gucharmap zenity gnome-games cheese
>   libbeecrypt6 unzip gnome-cards-data lzop ggzcore-bin gnome-mag gedit
>   python-gtksourceview2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa
>   gnome-themes seahorse libggzmod4 vinagre swfdec-gnome libpt-1.10.10
>   festlex-cmu dasher guile-1.8-libs p7zip gedit-common libdmx1 libcryptui0
>   libbrlapi0.5 libatspi1.0-0 libxevie1 gdm-themes gnome-orca arj
>   python-pyatspi libgtksourceview2.0-common librpm4.4 eog gdm
>   libgtksourceview2.0-0 gnome-backgrounds dasher-data python-brlapi gok
>   espeak-data libggz2 festlex-poslex at-spi libpoppler3 vino mousetweaks
>   gnome-games-data festvox-kallpc16k libswfdec-0.8-0 libespeak1 rpm
>   libopal-2.2 libgnomevfs2-bin libgnome-speech7 xserver-xephyr zip 
> gnome-core
>   dmz-cursor-theme libcolorblind0 festival libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l
>   libgpgme11 libggzcore9 gconf-editor gnome-accessibility gnuchess
>   gnome-accessibility-themes unace libavahi-ui0 libestools1.2
>   gstreamer0.10-tools file-roller libpoppler-glib3
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> Suggested packages:
>   wvdial
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   gnome-network-admin gnome-system-tools
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Inst gnome-system-tools (2.22.1-2 Debian:testing)
> Inst gnome-network-admin (2.22.1-2 Debian:testing)
> Conf gnome-system-tools (2.22.1-2 Debian:testing)
> Conf gnome-network-admin (2.22.1-2 Debian:testing)



Debian Bug Tracking System said the following on 04/01/2009 11:36 AM:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the system-tools-backends package:
>
> #522201: upgrade followed by dist-upgrade breaks squeeze
>
> It has been closed by Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> by
> replying to this email.
>
>
>   
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> Subject:
> Re: Bug#522201: upgrade followed by dist-upgrade breaks squeeze
> From:
> Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
> Date:
> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:34:04 +0200
> To:
> 522201-done at bugs.debian.org
>
> To:
> 522201-done at bugs.debian.org
>
>
> Le mercredi 01 avril 2009 à 10:58 -0500, Carl Greco a écrit :
>   
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>   system-tools-backends: Breaks: gnome-system-tools (< 2.22.1-1) but 
>>> 2.22.0-3 is to be installed
>>>       
>
> This was caused by a bug in britney which allowed it to migrate while it
> should not have.
>
> It should be fixed in the next mirror pulse.
>
>   
>
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>
> Subject:
> upgrade followed by dist-upgrade breaks squeeze
> From:
> Carl Greco <carl.greco at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:58:29 -0500
> To:
> submit at bugs.debian.org
>
> To:
> submit at bugs.debian.org
>
>
> Package: system-tools-backends
> Version:  2.6.0-5
>
> upgrade followed by dist-upgrade breaks squeeze (testing) distribution.
> |
>> digital: sudo apt-get -s install gnome-network-admin 
>> gnome-system-tools liboobs-1-4 system-tools-backends
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree       Reading state information... Done
>> liboobs-1-4 is already the newest version.
>> liboobs-1-4 set to manually installed.
>> system-tools-backends is already the newest version.
>> system-tools-backends set to manually installed.
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   system-tools-backends: Breaks: gnome-system-tools (< 2.22.1-1) but 
>> 2.22.0-3 is to be installed
>> E: Broken packages
>>
>
> steps that led to this dependency problem:
>> digital: sudo apt-get upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree       Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>   evince gimp gimp-data libgimp2.0 poppler-utils system-tools-backends
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   bind9-host dnsutils file gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly iproute 
>> libbind9-40
>>   libdns45 libisc45 libisccc40 libisccfg40 libkpathsea4 liblwres40 
>> libmagic1
>>   libselinux1 libsqlite3-0 libtrackerclient0 mktemp net-tools 
>> python-gtkhtml2
>>   python-gtkmozembed python-selinux ucf
>>
> followed by:
>> digital: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree       Reading state information... Done
>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   fast-user-switch-applet gnome-desktop-environment gnome-network-admin
>>   gnome-system-tools
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>   libopenjpeg2 libpoppler-glib4 libpoppler4
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   evince gimp gimp-data libgimp2.0 poppler-utils system-tools-backends
>> 6 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 19.3MB of archives.
>> After this operation, 8024kB disk space will be freed.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>>

-- 
Carl