[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#710284: 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 jeu., 2013-05-30 at 07:32 +0200, 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).
> 
> But it makes sense. When explicitly saying “install xfce4” I'm telling
> apt that I want the new xfce4 version no matter what. In the
> dist-upgrade case, the score of removing a package is too important
> for
> apt so it doesn't want to do that.

I've managed to reproduce using Jessie chroot and dist-upgrade. I'll
try to come with a fix now that I can reproduce. Note that in any case
and in the meanwhile, using apt-get install xfce4 will do the right
thing (but I guess you don't have any problem with your install).

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 490 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/attachments/20130530/a7d956ae/attachment.pgp>