Re: [Synaptic-devel] Trouble with updating xfree86

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:19:54AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
[..problem description cut..]
> > Finally, when selecting all packages of the xfree86-packages except  
> > xbase-clients, xbase-clients is listed among the packages that will be  
> > upgraded and nothing is marked to be removed.

Thanks for this bugreport. Is this problem still reproducible? 

> > I'm not sure what is wrong there, but as passing all of the xfree86- 
> > related packages to apt-get install works I guess synaptic is behaving  
> > a bit...unexpectedly. :-)

I attached a patch. Can you please test it and tell me if it makes a
differences? 

> This sounds awfully similar to this case where it was found that synaptic 
> uses a slightly different algorithm than apt to resolve broken 
> dependencies: 
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/synaptic-devel/2004-01/msg00065.html
> 
> ..and indeed there seem to be some subtle differences in the way apt and
> synaptic handle resolving installation dependencies... Don't have time to 
> dig into that right now but certainly something to check sooner or later.

Thanks for pointing this out Panu. 

bye,
 Michael

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