Bug#590470: aptitude runs out of time to calculate lenny -> squeeze full-upgrade

[maximilian attems]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: important

gnome desktop box with several tex packages and some kde bits
(due to lyx and kile) can't upgrade anymore with aptitude.

thanks to xstrike force xorg will no longer be removed by apt-get
dist-upgrade, but the previous working aptitude full-upgrade goes
nowhere:

1163 packages upgraded, 633 newly installed, 195 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2022MB of archives. After unpacking 1933MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgnomekbd2: Depends: libgnomekbd-common (= 2.22.0-1) but 2.30.1-2 is to be installed.
g++-4.1: Depends: gcc-4.1-base (= 4.1.2-25) but 4.1.2-29 is to be installed.
Depends: gcc-4.1 (= 4.1.2-25) but 4.1.2-29 is to be installed.
libmagick10: Depends: libgraphviz4 (>= 2.20.0) but it is not installable
libgdl-gnome-1-0: Depends: libgdl-1-common (= 0.7.11-1) but 2.30.0-1 is to be installed.
libcairo2: Breaks: xulrunner-1.9 but 1.9.0.19-2 is installed.
xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-2 which is a virtual package.
Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-cyrix (<= 1:1.1.0-8) but 1:1.1.0-8 is installed.
Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-nsc (<= 1:2.8.3-4) but 1:2.8.3-4 is installed.
libstdc++6-4.1-dev: Depends: gcc-4.1-base (= 4.1.2-25) but 4.1.2-29 is to be installed.
java-gcj-compat: Depends: java-gcj-compat-headless (= 1.0.78-2) but it is not installable
libavcodec51: Depends: libdirac0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installable
libgdl-1-0: Depends: libgdl-1-common (= 0.7.11-1) but 2.30.0-1 is to be installed.
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[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

Post by maximilian attems
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: important
gnome desktop box with several tex packages and some kde bits
(due to lyx and kile) can't upgrade anymore with aptitude.

Could you please make a backup of your system state (i.e. installed
packages + versions, sources.list, if possible also the exact Packages
files)?

Does apt-get dist-upgrade work? Does upgrading only apt and trying with
the new version of apt-get lead to anything? Is aptitude from squeeze
able to do the rest of upgrade?

Marc

[maximilian attems]

Post by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt

Post by maximilian attems
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: important
gnome desktop box with several tex packages and some kde bits
(due to lyx and kile) can't upgrade anymore with aptitude.

Could you please make a backup of your system state (i.e. installed
packages + versions, sources.list, if possible also the exact Packages
files)?

sure will send later tomorrow, on the run currently.

Post by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Does apt-get dist-upgrade work? Does upgrading only apt and trying with
the new version of apt-get lead to anything? Is aptitude from squeeze
able to do the rest of upgrade?

apt-get proposed something sensible, didn't check for gimp.
It dislikes for some reason anjuta, don't remember why.

we have several boxes to upgrade to squeeze, with very similar setup.
I was just looking at the current improvements thanks to the
xserver-xorg-core changes it no longer deinstalls xorg on apt-get
dist-upgrade.

didn't try some apt or aptitude first upgrade path as it seems
for me unnatural. somehow i still am attached to simple upgrades
on two goes (upgrade then dist-upgrade) and thus finding to
break that into steps is an unnecessary burden..

thanks

[maximilian attems]

Post by Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt

Post by maximilian attems
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: important
gnome desktop box with several tex packages and some kde bits
(due to lyx and kile) can't upgrade anymore with aptitude.

Could you please make a backup of your system state (i.e. installed
packages + versions, sources.list, if possible also the exact Packages
files)?

sources list (just had added a squeeze line, didn't yet upgrade):

deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.eu.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.eu.debian.org/ lenny/updates main


package list is long and is attached (output of dpkg -l)
which package file you want?

thanks