On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:26:54 +0100 Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2018-02-19 12:04:24 +0100, wm4 wrote: > > Yeah, that is strange. I didn't create a new user, because that would > > change nothing. I made sure to override all environment variables for > > the test. I can't test anymore because after fighting Debian's > > absolutely crappy package manager to make it downgrade to testing's > > Qt packages, it works again. (And I'll defend my word choice "crappy". > > Why can't it figure out transitive dependencies? It's just bad. > > aptitude didn't behave better.) > > IMHO, dependency resolution would not work well (or even not at all) > for downgrades. Getting all the installed package from the same source > package (here, qtbase-opensource-src) could make things easier for > downgrades. > Well, I had the following situation: I uninstalled some Qt and application packages as preparation for downgrading. Then I installed the downgraded Qt packages. Then I wanted to reinstall an application package. But it showed dozens of errors like this: package1 : Depends: package2 (>= version) but it is not going to be installed It turns out the resolution was removing/downgrading just 1 or 2 packages (not package1 or package2) that transitively blocked installing package2. Not even aptitude after crunching on it for minutes could come up with the resolution. I'd really expect better. I don't get why Debian has to split everything into thousands of packages either, when everything depends on everything anyway. Sorry for off-topic.
