Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote:
> no, the python package is gone.
It may be going, but it's not gone:
# apt-show-versions -a python
python:amd64 2.7.16-1 stable ftp.us.debian.org
No stable-updates version
No testing version
python:amd64 2.7.17-2 unstable ftp.us.debian.org
No experimental version
python:amd64 not installed
What's supposed to happen to the huge list of packages that "Depend" on
a package called "python"?
# apt-cache showpkg python |
sed -n '/^Reverse Depends/,/^Dependencies/p' |
wc -l
2674
There doesn't seem to be anything else that satisfies this dependency,
so these have all suddenly become uninstallable:
# apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry
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:
python : PreDepends: python-minimal (= 2.7.17-2) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libpython-stdlib (= 2.7.17-2) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: python2 (= 2.7.17-2) but 2.7.18-2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
This situation is doubleplus ungood; something needs to be done about it
immediately.
-- Ian Bruce
