On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:18:30PM +1000, Tom wrote: > I've been having issues upgrading a standard Devuan Jessie install to > Ascii. During upgrade, the task-xfce4-desktop package gets uninstalled and > can't be installed afterwards due to dependency problems. > > Jessie has tasksel=3.33+devuan1.0 and Ascii has tasksel=3.33+devuan0.3 > which is preventing task-xfce4-desktop from being installed in Ascii. This > is also causing a number of xfce4-* and other packages to be marked as not > required and removable with apt-get autoremove. >
[cut] > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > task-xfce-desktop : Depends: tasksel (= 3.33+devuan0.3) but 3.33+devuan1.0 > is to be installed > Depends: xfce4 but it is not going to be installed > Recommends: xfce4-mixer but it is not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > Hi Tom, the unmet dependency there might not be tasksel (which is a virtual package) rather a chain of deps which goes down to dbus. Since an updated version of dbus is now available in ascii's repos, you should be able to dist-upgrade to ascii (we will come back to tasksel as well, in due course). My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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