Hi all,

I have the following problem:

# apt-get install --reinstall emacs22-nox
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
emacs22-nox: Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) but 5.6+20070908-1 is
to be installed
E: Broken packages

But libncurses5 >= 5.6+20071006-3 is not available:

# apt-show-versions libncurses5
libncurses5 5.6+20070908-1 install ok installed
libncurses5 5.5-5 stable
libncurses5 5.6+20070908-1 testing
libncurses5 5.6+20070908-1 unstable
libncurses5/testing uptodate 5.6+20070908-1

This unmet dependency means when I want to dist-upgrade I am prompted to
do the following:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
bbdb debian-el dictem dictionary-el emacs22-nox nxml-mode ruby1.8-elisp
w3m-el
The following packages have been kept back:
cupsys hpijs hpijs-ppds libcupsys2 mplayer-nogui
The following packages will be upgraded:
emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-el
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 14.2MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I suspect that if I allow dist-upgrade to remove emacs22-nox I won't be
able to simply install it again, which would be a disaster!

Should I file a bug report, or just wait until a version of libncurses5
is available that staisfies emacs22-nox.

Sebastian


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Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:

> I have the following problem:
>
> # apt-get install --reinstall emacs22-nox
> [...]
> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
> emacs22-nox: Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) but 5.6+20070908-1 is
> to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> But libncurses5 >= 5.6+20071006-3 is not available:
>
> # apt-show-versions libncurses5
> libncurses5 5.6+20070908-1 install ok installed
> libncurses5 5.5-5 stable
> libncurses5 5.6+20070908-1 testing
> libncurses5 5.6+20070908-1 unstable
> libncurses5/testing uptodate 5.6+20070908-1

Have you run "apt-get update" recently? If yes, you should use a
different mirror. FWIW, I already have libncurses5 5.6+20071013-1,
installed on October 17 (I run unstable).

> This unmet dependency means when I want to dist-upgrade I am prompted to
> do the following:
>
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED
> bbdb debian-el dictem dictionary-el emacs22-nox nxml-mode ruby1.8-elisp
> w3m-el
> The following packages have been kept back:
> cupsys hpijs hpijs-ppds libcupsys2 mplayer-nogui
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-el
> 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> Need to get 25.7MB of archives.
> After unpacking 14.2MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
>
> I suspect that if I allow dist-upgrade to remove emacs22-nox I won't be
> able to simply install it again, which would be a disaster!

It won't be that fatal, since you could reinstall it at a later point,
but that is certainly not what you want.

> Should I file a bug report, or just wait until a version of libncurses5
> is available that staisfies emacs22-nox.

First make sure to run "apt-get update". If that does not cure the
problem, file a bug against the "mirrors" pseudopackage that your
mirror is horribly outdated.

Regards,
Sven


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Quoth Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> Have you run "apt-get update" recently?

Of course.

> If yes, you should use a different mirror. FWIW, I already have
> libncurses5 5.6+20071013-1, installed on October 17 (I run unstable).

Hmm. Interesting.

>> I suspect that if I allow dist-upgrade to remove emacs22-nox I won't be
>> able to simply install it again, which would be a disaster!
>
> It won't be that fatal, since you could reinstall it at a later point,
> but that is certainly not what you want.

Indeed not.

>> Should I file a bug report, or just wait until a version of libncurses5
>> is available that staisfies emacs22-nox.

> First make sure to run "apt-get update". If that does not cure the
> problem, file a bug against the "mirrors" pseudopackage that your
> mirror is horribly outdated.

This I will do. Thanks for the information Sven.

Sebastian


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