Bug#733512: Error updating mate-polkit-common

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

(Note: Please keep the bug tracker in CC, I just bounced your mail)

On 12/29/2013 05:29 PM, Franklin McCormick wrote:
>   Strange because AFAIK my MATE desktop came from the Debian repositories.

This doesn't contract my previous statement at all. The current problem
with MATE in Debian is that the whole upload is work-in-progress and
many packages are yet missing. MATE consists of over 50 separate
packages and it's not possible to upload all packages simultaneously
to Debian since the FTP masters have to manually acknowledge every
new package manually.

As a result, users are dealing with having to mix packages from the
official Debian archives with the packages from the MATE Debian
repositories which can result in conflicts like the one you reported.

These conflicts will always occur from time to time while MATE hasn't
been fully uploaded to the Debian archives and users therefore have
to deal with these, unfortunately.

However, such problems are normal and to be expected when using Debian
unstable which is why it's not recommended to use Debian unstable
unless you can resolve these problems yourself.

>   A second problem I am having is two MATE packages which won't update:
> 
> 
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   libmateweather-common libmatewnck-common
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> frank at frank-debian:~$
> 
>   This has been the situation for months.

Yes, and the origin of this problem is the same as mentioned above.
I am sorry for the breakage, but we can't avoid it at the moment. It
might have been smarter to upload everything to experimental first,
but we have started with unstable now and have to get this whole
process done.

Please be patient :).

PS: I am considering closing or downgrading the severity of this
    bug report as we can't really address it at the moment and
    setting it to critical will just prevent the package from
    migrating to testing.

Cheers,

Adrian

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