[Aptitude-devel] Bug#825901: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-06-02 03:55 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
>>>>>> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> writes:
>
>MAFM> Do you have any more info to know why 8:6.8.9.9-7+b1 instead of +b2 is
>MAFM> chosen?  What's the current status of imagemagick?  (e.g. half
>MAFM> configured or something?).
>
>All I know is the newer one makes a lot of dangling symlins so I had put
>it on hold previouly.
>
>I probably checked if I reported it before, and found 758792 and thought
>that I did, but that turns out to be a previous bug. Now I am getting
>these other bugs so I'm scared to try upgrading it again, and will wait
>for a new imagemagick.
>
>Now:
># set imagemagick
># apt-cache policy $@
>imagemagick:
>  Installed: 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1
>  Candidate: 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2
>  Version table:
>     8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2 990
>        990 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian experimental/main i386 Packages
> *** 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1 100
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     8:6.8.9.9-7+b2 500
>        500 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 Packages
>
>I put it on hold again due to so many problems.

The thing is that apt and aptitude should ignore the version
8:6.8.9.9-7+b1 unless you have it installed and want to reinstall, or
perhaps if there's an existing problem with that version ("pending
configure" or so).

Other operations like install, upgrade and so on, if the package doesn't
have any problem, should require the most recent/candidate version
(8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2 or 8:6.8.9.9-7+b2), instead of this:

  E: Can't find a source to download version '8:6.8.9.9-7+b1' of 'imagemagick:i386'
  E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

What does "dpkg --status imagemagick" say?


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