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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 04:27 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.

I have no control over what text aptitude outputs, I suggest contacting
the aptitude maintainers if you have a suggestion regarding that.

> Still, there are missing Breaks.

No, there are not.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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