Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Tue Nov 22 03:27:19 UTC 2016


On 2016-11-22 00:37:14 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> In the end, you shouldn't have let aptitude remove the packages. It can
> happen from time to time on unstable to have temporary inconsistent
> state in the apt tree (that's why it's called unstable), for example in
> this case it was probably because the new amd64 version was up in the
> repo but the i386 was still being built/published.

The problem here is that aptitude said that the packages were
no longer used, i.e. there were no dependencies on them. This
is very misleading.

Still, there are missing Breaks.

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