Bug#544085: gnome-system-tools: Breaks the gnome package while upgrade

[Nicolas Patrois]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.22.1-5
Severity: normal


When I full-upgrade the system with aptitude:

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# LC_ALL=C aptitude full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages are BROKEN:
  gnome 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-network-admin{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gnome-system-tools 
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4310kB of archives. After unpacking 115kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome: Depends: network-manager-gnome but it is not installable or
                  gnome-network-admin (>= 2.22.1) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
gnome

Score is 119

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
libnl1 [1.1-5 (testing, now)]
libnm-glib-vpn0 [0.7.1-1 (testing, now)]
libpcsclite1 [1.5.5-1 (testing)]
network-manager [0.7.1-1 (testing, now)]
network-manager-gnome [0.7.1-1 (testing, now)]
wpasupplicant [0.6.9-3 (testing, now)]

Score is -4

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y

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The simple upgrade does nothing, the package is not upgraded.
The solution uninstalled the package and installed instead the six listed here.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.26.2-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-23            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.8-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-5           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.4-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.5-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.26.3-1          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liboobs-1-4            2.22.1-1          GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  perl                   5.10.0-25         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  policykit-gnome        0.9.2-2           GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
ii  system-tools-backends  2.6.0-6.1         System Tools to manage computer co
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.26.0-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools suggests:
pn  ntp                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  samba-common                  2:3.3.4-1  common files used by both the Samb
pn  wvdial                        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information