Bug#589115: This package is un-installable

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello,

2010/7/15 Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv at iki.fi>:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, +11:03:58 EEST (UTC +0300),
> Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> pressed some keys:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:46:54AM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
>> > Package: xbel-utils
>> > Version: 0.8.4-10.1+lenny1
>> > Severity: grave
>> >
>> > This package depends on python-xml . Unfortunately the latest version
>> > of python-xml depends on "python < 2.6" and Debian already has a
>> > version of Python that breaks that rule.
>>
>> I think you're not getting the big picture here...
>>
>> python-xml has been removed from unstable/testing so it lives only in
>> stable, where python 2.5 is the default. No-one will update it to make
>> it work with 2.6 as default (given it's not part of python core).
>
> Do you mean that also xbel-utils will stop working in unstable Debian
> and later on testing and stable, too?

yes, it was provided by python-xml that is now remove: please complain
with the former maintainer (I'm not) in case you still need it, asking
for a solution.

>> >   APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'unstable')
>
>> You have quite a broken setup here I found no reason to have teh
>> stable suite while you use (and prefer) the under-development suites
>> (testing and then unstable).
>
> I have released my apt-configs here:
>
> http://iki.fi/juhtolv/configs/debian/apt/
>
> After downgrading umpteen packages I was able to install xbel-utils back.
>
> I swithced my configs to unstable (as seen in that file
> 000README.txt). Then I gave commands "aptitude update" and "aptitude -Z -V
> -f -D -v -v -v -v -v --without-recommends dist-upgrade". This is what
> happened then:
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  adesklets [0.6.1-5 -> 0.6.1-5+b1]  gdesklets [0.36.1-3 ->
>  0.36.1-4+b1]  gimp [2.6.8-1 -> 2.6.10-1] <+12.3kB>  gimp-data
>  [2.6.8-3 -> 2.6.10-1] <+1,790kB>
>  libgimp2.0 [2.6.8-3+b1 -> 2.6.10-1] <+119kB>  python [2.5.4-9 ->
>  2.6.5-7] <+106kB>  python-minimal [2.6.5-5 -> 2.6.5-7] <+57.3kB>
>  python-sqlalchemy [0.6.1-1 -> 0.6.2-1] <+729kB>  xgridfit [2.1-1 ->
>  2.2a-1] <+90.1kB>
> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
>  python-sqlalchemy-ext (R: python-sqlalchemy)
> 9 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 3,273kB/21.2MB of archives. After unpacking 2,904kB will
> be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  python-xml: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.5-7 is to be installed.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
>     Remove the following packages:
> 1)     python-xml
> 2)     xbel-utils
again, your trying to install python from testing; python in stable is
2.5 while in testing is 2.6, that generates a conflict with
python2.5-only pacakges like python-xml. There's nothing you can do
about it.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi