[Aptitude-devel] Bug#632125: aptitude fails to resolve dependencies for safe-upgrade

[Grześ Andruszkiewicz]

Hi,

This problem occurs every time a new stable Debian is released. As a
workaround I always have to do aptitude dist-upgrade at some point (after
upgrading selected packages in a safe way).

Now I am running Debian stable, so my APT policy is (600, 'testing'), (700,
'stable'), (50, 'unstable')

Unfortunately we just had a release, so the next opportunity to replicate
the problem will be in a few years time. What kind of debugging output
should I collect if/when it happens next time?

Cheers,
Grzegorz

On 18 September 2015 at 23:06, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <
manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
>
> Hi Grzegorz,
>
> 2011-06-29 19:12 Grzegorz Andruszkiewicz:
>
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.6.3-3.2
>> Severity: important
>>
>> I have just tried to use aptitude safe-upgrade to upgrade my laptop. It
>> started
>> to resolve dependencies so I left the system running for 10h. However
>> after
>> this time it still didn't finish. The closed package count was 300000,
>> the open
>> ones over 270000. I don't know if it was doing normal processing (just
>> slow) or
>> if it hang -- either way it is completely unusable.
>>
>
> Is this a recurrent problem, or did you only see it around the time when
> this was reported?
>
> At the time you were using 3 Debian releases:
>
>  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
>>
>
> Do you still use this now?  If it stopped happening, did it have any
> correlation with the number of releases used?
>
>
> Can provide any other useful information that you can think of, any
> change of the situation since then?
>
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>
>
>
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