Bug#539578: [pbuilder] Non-functional if aptitude uninstallable (even in classic mode)

Jason Heeris jason.heeris at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 06:04:11 UTC 2009


Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.189
Severity: normal

At the moment aptitude in sid is uninstallable. This means that pbuilder
cannot update, and therefore cannot build. Furthermore, changing to the
"classic" (or any other) dependency handler makes no difference: putting

PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD=/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-[anything]

in ~/.pbuilderrc does not change the result:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.7
            Depends: libept0 (>= 0.5.26+b1) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Broken packages

So pbuilder simply doesn't work until aptitude becomes installable
again. Since aptitude is important, not essential, and does on occasion
become uninstallable, it'd be nice to have an easy way to work around
this rare-but-annoying situation.

This is related to, but not the same as bug #448334.

Cheers,
Jason Heeris

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.30.badger

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 testing         www.debian-multimedia.org
  500 testing         security.debian.org
  500 testing         ftp.iinet.net.au
  500 testing         ftp.debian-unofficial.org
  500 squeeze         www.lamaresh.net

--- Package information. ---
Depends             (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-=============
cdebootstrap                  | 0.5.4
 OR debootstrap               | 1.0.13
wget                          | 1.11.4-4
debianutils       (>= 1.13.1) | 3.2
coreutils        (>= 4.5.8-1) | 7.4-2
debconf             (>= 0.5)  | 1.5.27
 OR debconf-2.0               |


Recommends      (Version) | Installed
=========================-+-===========
fakeroot                  | 1.12.4
sudo                      | 1.7.2-1
devscripts                | 2.10.52


Suggests          (Version) | Installed
===========================-+-===========
pbuilder-uml                |
gdebi                       |
cowdancer                   |









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