[Aptitude-devel] Bug#502285: Bug#498800: upgrade of aptitude before?

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

severity 502285 normal
forcemerge 502285 498800
stop


2009-02-02 01:16 Daniel Burrows:
>On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 07:01:41PM +0100, Wolf Wiegand <wolf.wiegand at web.de> was heard to say:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Daniel Burrows wrote:
>>
>> >   Out of curiosity, does it help if you add "xserver-xorg-video-all"
>> > to the command-line?
>>
>> You mean "aptitude dist-upgrade xserver-xorg-video-all"? Yes, this does
>> help:
>>
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   libdiscover1{a} libglib1.2{a} libgssapi2{a} libk3b2{a} liborbit0{a}
>>   libpci2{a} modutils{a} xserver-xorg-video-newport{a}
>>   xserver-xorg-video-via{a}
>>
>> This result does look alright, removing these packages seems to be
>> ok, as far as I can tell (apt-get would remove the same packages).
>
>  OK, good.  That's one of the few ways you can hint the resolver in
>the lenny version of aptitude; hopefully it's a reasonable work-around
>for this problem.

#502285 and #498800 look like manifestations of the same problem,
#498800 contains some information about how to hint aptitude in the
right direction.

As I just wrote in a comment to #502285, the aptitude resolver
implementation changed a lot since they were reported, specially around
2009-2010, so I don't know if it's of much use to keep these bugs open.

There are manifestations of similar problems (solutions offered not
being good) in later versions, but trying to reproduce the particular
behaviour of these bug reports is not very useful, I think, when we have
more recent and better examples and with more information to see what's
going on.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>