[DRE-maint] Bug#956365: redmine: unmet dependencies

[Dragos Jarca]

Hi

Thx for your answer.

root at omv:~# apt-get -t unstable install redmine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  redmine : Depends: ruby-actionpack-xml-parser but it is not going to 
be installed
            Depends: ruby-roadie-rails (>= 1.3.0) but it is not going to 
be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

root@***:~# apt-get -t unstable install redmine 
ruby-actionpack-xml-parser ruby-roadie-rails
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  ruby-actionpack-xml-parser : Depends: ruby-actionpack (< 2:6) but 
2:6.0.2.1+dfsg-3 is to be installed
                               Depends: ruby-railties (< 2:6) but 
2:6.0.2.1+dfsg-3 is to be installed
  ruby-roadie-rails : Depends: ruby-railties (< 2:5.3) but 
2:6.0.2.1+dfsg-3 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

root@***:~# dpkg -l gitlab
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-==================================================================
ii  gitlab         12.9.2-4     all          git powered software 
platform to collaborate on code (non-omnibus)

As u can see, I cannot downgrade rails, because of gitlab, that use 
rails 6. I will not downgrade gitlab.

Pls. see https://www.redmine.org/issues/29914

Regards

On 20.04.2020 14:06, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> Control: tag -1 + unreproducible
>
>
> Quack,
>
> I just made a fresh install on today's unstable and cannot reproduce 
> your installation problem.
>
> Involed libraried are:
> Setting up ruby-roadie-rails (1.3.0-2) ...
> Setting up ruby-roadie (4.0.0-1) ...
> Setting up ruby-actionpack-xml-parser (2.0.1-3) ...
>
> So maybe something was amiss in unstable at the time, or your gitlab 
> installation added local gems, but this worked when I uploaded and it 
> works now too. Did you install gitlab using the package? Could you see 
> if this still a problem now?
>
> As for 4.1 I don't see the relationship. Anyway I need to wait in 
> order to get buster-bpo in order and then either 4.1 or 4.2 would come 
> in.
>
> Regards.
>