[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#710284: Bug#710284: xfce4: dist-upgrade to 4.10 fails with xfce4/xfce4-session/xfce4-appfinder held back by stale xfce4-utils

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2013-05-29 at 23:22 +0800, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> apt-get dist-upgrade from xfce4 4.8 to xfce4 4.10 fails with
> xfce4/xfce4-session/xfce4-appfinder being held back by inability to
> upgrade
> xfce4-utils, which is not present in 4.10. This is curious as xfce4
> 4.10
> Depends on libxfce4ui-utils which Replaces xfce4-utils. It seems that
> apt is
> unable to resolve the conflict despite being provided with a full and
> consistent set of Depends, Replaces, and Breaks (perhaps dependencies
> are too
> deep, or perhaps apt-get needs a flag --try-harder?). Or perhaps apt's
> heuristics sometime just get it wrong?

Out of curiosity, can you include the result of:

apt-get install xfce4

I've tried to reproduce in a wheezy chroot. Installed xfce4 (4.8.0.3)
then switched the sources to sid (directly) and tried to install xfce4
and I have no dependency problem:

root at scapa:/# apt-get install xfce4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer
required:
  libffi5
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  exo-utils gtk2-engines-xfce libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libexo-1-0
libffi6
  libgarcon-common libglib2.0-0 libharfbuzz0 libicu48 libkeybinder0
  libpango-1.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0
  libpangox-1.0-0 libpangoxft-1.0-0 libthunarx-2-0 libunique-1.0-0
  libxfce4ui-1-0 libxfce4ui-utils libxfce4util6 orage thunar thunar-data
  xfce4-appfinder xfce4-mixer xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings
xfconf
  xfdesktop4 xfdesktop4-data xfwm4
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc locales ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
  ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp sox thunar-archive-plugin
  thunar-media-tags-plugin xfce4-goodies xfce4-power-manager
gtk3-engines-xfce
  sudo fortunes-mod menu
Recommended packages:
  manpages-dev liburi-perl libglib2.0-data libxfce4util-bin
thunar-volman
  tumbler xdg-user-dirs gvfs xorg desktop-base tango-icon-theme
xfce4-notifyd
  consolekit upower xscreensaver xfce4-volumed x11-utils librsvg2-common
  xfwm4-themes
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xfce4-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libffi6 libharfbuzz0 libicu48 libkeybinder0 libpango-1.0-0
  libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0
libpangoxft-1.0-0
  libunique-1.0-0 libxfce4ui-utils libxfce4util6
The following packages will be upgraded:
  exo-utils gtk2-engines-xfce libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libexo-1-0
  libgarcon-common libglib2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libthunarx-2-0
libxfce4ui-1-0
  orage thunar thunar-data xfce4 xfce4-appfinder xfce4-mixer xfce4-panel
  xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfconf xfdesktop4 xfdesktop4-data xfwm4
24 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 1 to remove and 123 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.0 MB/27.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 16.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

So I'm not sure what the problem is. We might try to help apt, but it'd
be really easier if I was able to reproduce the problem myself.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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