[Aptitude-devel] Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: reassign -1 aptitude
Control: retitle -1 aptitude can put the package system in a broken state with different versions of a MultiArch package
Control: severity -1 serious

On 2016-11-22 09:10:01 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 04:27 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2016-11-22 00:37:14 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > In the end, you shouldn't have let aptitude remove the packages. It can
> > > happen from time to time on unstable to have temporary inconsistent
> > > state in the apt tree (that's why it's called unstable), for example in
> > > this case it was probably because the new amd64 version was up in the
> > > repo but the i386 was still being built/published.
> > 
> > The problem here is that aptitude said that the packages were
> > no longer used, i.e. there were no dependencies on them. This
> > is very misleading.
> 
> I have no control over what text aptitude outputs, I suggest contacting
> the aptitude maintainers if you have a suggestion regarding that.
> 
> > Still, there are missing Breaks.
> 
> No, there are not.

So, this is a bug in aptitude.

In any case, if the dependencies are correct, the package system
should never be put in a broken state.

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