Unable to install mate-core on Debian Sid

Joe Gullo surfrock66 at surfrock66.com
Mon May 30 20:25:45 UTC 2016


Awesome, thanks.  I wasn't sure if the update got missed with the other
updates since of the tag's age, but sounds good, I'll be patient.  Stuff
definitely breaks for me in sid from time to time, but this one had
particularly gotten me since I was building a new box.  Thanks!


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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:12 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi Joe!
>
> On 05/30/2016 07:58 PM, Joe Gullo wrote:
> > Mate is unable to be installed in Debian Sid.  I am unable to install
> mate-core, mate-desktop-environment and mate-desktop-environment-core
> because marco is at
> > an incompatible version in the Debian Sid repos.  Marco 1.12.1-1 is in
> the repo, but the other packages require 1.14.0.
> >
> > It appears that marco 1.12.1 is from November 2015, and marco is
> actually currently at 1.14.2.
>
> You are using Debian unstable which is a highly moving target meaning that
> many packages are
> rapidly changing or some of the packages get out of sync. This is well
> known and inevitable,
> simply because Debian unstable is the place were newly uploaded packages
> directly end up,
> you get the packages once they are available.
>
> However, since something as complex as a desktop environment consists of a
> *large* number of
> packages, it might get affected by the "out-of-sync" problem which is
> exactly what happened
> here. All packages of the MATE desktop were updated to their current 1.14
> versions while
> src:marco was kept back as it was stuck in Debian's NEW queue [1].
>
> This is a well known behavior and simply inevitable in Debian unstable. I
> have explained
> it in a bit more detail in [2]. But to cut a long story short: Your
> problem will resolve
> automatically if just wait a few hours for the FTP mirrors to sync since
> the 1.14
> version of src:marco has recently be accepted into unstable [3].
>
> Please be aware that these situations will happen frequently in Debian
> unstable and
> therefore please refrain from reporting any bugs (which luckily you didn't
> do in this
> case).
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
> > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/NewQueue
> > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825791#31
> > [3] https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/marco/news/20160530T070032Z.html
>
> --
>  .''`.  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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