Bug#733512: Error updating mate-polkit-common

[Franklin McCormick]

On 29/12/13 11:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> (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.
>

>>
>>
>> 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.
>


     Feel free :)  Thanks for the quick response.

Frank