Bug#781375: libgnutls28-dev: cannot install

[Rowland Penny]

On 28/03/15 12:36, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
>
> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 09:59 +0000, root wrote:
>> Package: libgnutls28-dev
>> Severity: critical
>> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> Which version? This is very important information.
>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>     I tried to install the packages to compile Samba 4.2, this usually
>>     means installing libgnutls-dev, but this seems to have been replaced
>>     by libgnutls28-dev, YOU CANNOT INSTALL THIS!
> That by definition means that you're not dealing with "unrelated
> software". Please don't inflate severities.
>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> libgnutls28-dev :
>> Depends: libgnutls-deb0-28 (= 3.3.8-6~bpo70+1) but 3.3.8-6 is to be installed
>> Depends: libgnutlsxx28 (= 3.3.8-6~bpo70+1) but it is not going to be installed
> [...]
>> Depends: libldap-2.4-2 (= 2.4.31+really2.4.40-4~bpo70+1) but 2.4.40-4 is to be installed
> All of these suggest that you're trying to install gnutls28-dev from
> wheezy-backports, but your system information says:
> [...]
>>    APT prefers testing-updates
>>    APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (100, 'testing')
> [Note that "testing-updates" is a fairly redundant sources.list entry,
> as it will never contain any packages; jessie-updates only exists right
> now so that it's in place for when it becomes stable-updates. Did you
> perhaps means testing-proposed-updates?]
>
> but also:
>
>> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> I'm confused as to how your system is in a state containing, and trying
> to install, packages from wheezy-backports but claiming to only have
> testing-related sources.list entries.
>
> Please provide:
>
> - the _exact_ command you ran when trying to install libgnutls28-dev
> - the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list
> - the result of "apt-cache policy libgnutls28-dev" and "apt-cache policy
> libgnutls28".
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>

Thanks for pointing out that I had shot myself in the foot :-[

I ran a script, that somehow added the wheezy backports repo, this must 
have been my fault, I wrote the script :-[ :-[

Sorry for the noise.

Rowland