Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gns mipsel pidgin broken during update

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:12:59 +1030
Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:13:55 +0100
> Graziano <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > gNewSense metad mipsel on the Lemote Yeeloong.
> > 
> > aptitude update
> > aptitude dist-upgrade
> > 
> > the following packages are BROKEN:
> >   libpurple0 pidgin 
> 
> > the following packages will be updated:
> >   pidgin-data 
> > 
> > the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > 
> >   libpurple0: depends on pidgin-data (< 2.4.3-z) but 2.6.5-2~bpo50+1
> > is going to be installed.
> > 
> >   pidgin: depends on: pidgin-data (< 2.4.3-z) but 2.6.5-2~bpo50+1 is
> > going to be installed.

Having looked at it again, I'm a bit confused by this. All three
binary packages come from the same source package. Unless the mirror
has only picked up -data and not libpurple0/pidgin, this seems like a
very strange situation.

> > The following actions will allow to meet those dependencies:
> > 
> > Remove these packages:
> > 
> > libpurple0
> > pidgin
> > 
> > Leave those dependencies unmet:
> > gnome recommends empathy | pidgin
> > Score is -372

Please include 'aptitude why pidgin-data` when you file the bug
report.
kk

> > It seems only the single package has been backported and not its
> > dependencies.
> 
> maybe that dependency hasn't built on mipsel. I did check on i386 to
> make sure all the dependencies were met before adding to the
> backport list.
> 
> > But I may be wrong.
> > 
> > I think it was something useful to report anyway.
> 
> to the bts.
> kk.
> 
> 


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