Bug#677407: gnome-dbg: fails to upgrade from squeeze - apt does not find an upgrade path

[Michael Biebl]

On 26.11.2012 19:47, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2012-11-26 12:44, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 at 10:49:19 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>> the problem I previously reported for gnome-dbg now also shows up for
>>> gnome-core.
>>
>> Your log from 1st November is for gnome-dbg. Is this reproducible
>> for gnome-core too, or only for gnome-dbg?
> 
> squeeze2wheezy/main/affected/gnome-dbg_1:3.4+6.log
>    libglib2.0-0 : Breaks: eog (< 3.2.2-3) but 2.30.2-1 is to be installed
>   E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
> caused by held packages.
> 
> squeeze2wheezy/main/affected/gnome-core_1:3.4+6.log
> E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgstreamer0.10-0'.
> 
> different issue, could be filed already, but I didn't have time to look
> for 'immediate configuration' bugs check the dependenecy tree for
> circular dependencies - and break them :-)


Since eog triggered my attention, there is already [1] which might be
relevant. Especially [2] and onwards.
In the end, these are apt bugs it seems. But as we can't easily fix apt
in squeeze, we will have to find a workaround somehow.




[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676485
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676485#42
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