[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

Ben Caradoc-Davies ben at wintersun.org
Thu May 30 08:11:41 UTC 2013


On 30/05/13 13:32, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> I'll try later but as it's a clean Wheezy chropot, an update to sid is
> likely to bring a lot of stuff which will make noise so I'll try do to
> a clean approach (upgrading everything but xfce4, then dist-uprading).

I did a quick test on a live usb:

(1) I wrote 
7.0.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.0.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso to 
a thumb drive.

(2) I booted it, opened a terminal, then ran "sudo -i".

(3) I edited /etc/apt/sources.list to contain only a single line for 
sid, using my closest mirror.

(4) I then attempted to dist-upgrade to sid (simulated for speed):

apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade -s

Result: xfce4, xfce4-session, and xfce4-appfinder were held back (as 
well as a couple of others including libsnmp15 [hplip breakage that 
happened a few weeks ago]).

So, as you note, it is not as clean as testing just xfce4, but it does 
confirm that debian-live-7.0.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso is affected and it 
is not just something specific to my system.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben at wintersun.org>



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