Bug#557570: On Sid PowerPC aptitude unable to upgrade esound-clients and other packages

[Rick Thomas]

Package: esound-clients
Version: 0.2.41-5
Severity: normal


esound-clients is one of 4 packages that patitude cannot upgrade ob my sid PowerPC testing machine.

Here's the output...

dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done       
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages are BROKEN:
  epiphany-browser esound-common libesd-alsa0 libesd0 linux-image-2.6-powerpc 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  esound-clients 
The following packages are SUGGESTED but will NOT be installed:
  esound pulseaudio-esound-compat 
4 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 513kB of archives. After unpacking 94.2kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  epiphany-browser: Conflicts: swfdec-mozilla but 0.8.2-1 is installed.
  libesd-alsa0: Conflicts: libesd0 but 0.2.41-6 is to be installed.
  esound-common: Conflicts: libesd-alsa0 but 0.2.41-5 is installed.
  libesd0: Conflicts: libesd-alsa0 but 0.2.41-5 is installed.
  linux-image-2.6-powerpc: Depends: linux-image-2.6.31-1-powerpc which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
epiphany-browser [2.29.1-1 (now)]
esound-clients [0.2.41-5 (testing, now)]
esound-common [0.2.41-5 (testing, now)]
libesd0 [Not Installed]
linux-image-2.6-powerpc [2.6.30+21 (testing, now)]

Tier: Cancel all user actions (20000)

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
dillserver:~# 

I understand "normal sid churn" but these 5 packages have been unable to upgrade
for a couple of weeks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages esound-clients depends on:
ii  esound-common                 0.2.41-5   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common 
ii  libaudiofile0                 0.2.6-7    Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-7   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]        0.2.41-5   Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 

esound-clients recommends no packages.

esound-clients suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information