Bug#645713: Acknowledgement (fails to upgrade a default GNOME desktop installation from squeeze → sid)
2011/10/18 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>:
> upping the severity a bit as I think apt should be able to upgrade a default
> GNOME installation.
Is the transition completed already?
(And what is a "default GNOME"? Every package from task 'gnome'
installed or package 'gnome' installed or gnome-desktop-environment or …)
Usually this is complex cycle dependency or something related so it's quiet
important to know which packages are involved exactly (which not necessarily
show up all in the output of APT as there status isn't changed).
Either way it would be good if you could attach your
/var/lib/dpkg/status file; feel free to send it directly to
me in case you don't want to expose your installation status to the public.
Your report is against the APT version in sid,
is this correct or did you try it with apt/squeeze, or both?
The responsible code is quiet complex and is changed/rewritten
non-trivial all the time, so a known-bad version would be good to know…
(If it is a throw-away system feel free to try it with apt/experimental which
includes the code-rework from GSoC this year - just to prove my point).
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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