[Aptitude-devel] Bug#676365: iceweasel: Cannot install: depends on libnspr4

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:02:58PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> reassign 676365 aptitude
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:44:12AM -0300, Yuri Alexandre Aoto wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 13.0
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > 
> > When trying to install the new version of iceweasel, from backport, the following message appear:
> > 
> > ---------------
> > 
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   iceweasel libmozjs13d{a} libnspr4{ab} libvpx1{a} xulrunner-13.0{a} 
> > 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 129 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 16.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 37.6 MB will be used.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   libnspr4: Conflicts: libnspr4-0d (< 2:4.9-2~) but 4.8.6-1 is installed and it is kept back.
> > The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
> > 
> >      Keep the following packages at their current version:
> > 1)     iceweasel [Not Installed]                          
> > 2)     libnspr4 [Not Installed]                           
> > 3)     xulrunner-13.0 [Not Installed]                     
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y
> > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 129 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> > 
> > --------------
> > 
> > It seems that the dependence of iceweasel should be on libnspr4-0d  (< 2:4.9-2~), important to others packages. 
> 
> It seems aptitude has a hard time with these dependencies when apt-get
> is just happy with them.
> 
> For the aptitude maintainer:
> - on a squeeze system install iceweasel
> - add deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
>   to /etc/apt/source.list

Forgot an intermediate step:
- install the pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring package from
  squeeze-backports.

> - add deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
>   to /etc/apt/source.list
> - upgrade iceweasel

Mike