[Python-apps-team] Bug#645494: mercurial uninstallable on Squeeze?

[Javi Merino]

On 16/10/11 11:01, clayton wrote:
> Package: mercurial
> Version: 1.3.1-1~bpo50+2
> Severity: important

I don't know how you are doing the upgrade, but mercurial in squeeze is
1.6.4-1.

> I just upgraded a machine from Lenny to Squeeze, 
> and apt-get dist-upgrade removed mercurial in the process.
> And somehow I am now in this state:
> 
> # apt-get install mercurial
> 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:
>  mercurial : Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.6.6-3+squeeze6 is to be installed
>              Depends: mercurial-common (= 1.3.1-1~bpo50+2) but it is not going to be installed

That's the mercurial in lenny.  In squeeze mercurial depends on
python < 2.7 .

Can you run "apt-cache policy mercurial" ?


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