Upgrade to edgy: can't resolve courier packages dependency

[marc]

Mario Vukelic said...
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 04:51 +0100, marc wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I posted in another thread about the initial dependency problems I
> > encountered after applying the dapper to edgy upgrade. 
> 
> Before looking at individual problems: it seems to me that there are
> still at least 2 issues here: courier-authdaemon being in an
> inconsistent state, and a dependency problems with courier-authlib.
> Let's move slowly ...

No problem. Thanks very much for assisting.

> When you do the apt-get -f install, it tells you, "WARNING: The
> following packages cannot be authenticated! courier-authlib
> courier-authdaemon courier-base!"
> Do you know why this is the case?

No, I don't. I remember seeing a similar message on one of my Debian
boxes a year or so back, but never on the dapper box in question.

> Do you possibly have 3rd-party
> repositories enabled, or something else is non-default?

Not that I'm aware of.

FYI, I do have a few non-apt packages knocking about. For example: pan 
and Firefox2, and a backport of vim7 - although I think pan and vim7 
have been "absorbed" into edgy as part of the upgrade.

> It would be
> great it you could post the results of "apt-cache policy courier-authlib"

  $ apt-cache policy courier-authlib
  courier-authlib:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 0.58-4ubuntu1
    Version table:
       0.58-4ubuntu1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages

> and the same for courier-authdaemon.

  $ apt-cache policy courier-authdaemon
  courier-authdaemon:
    Installed: 0.47-13ubuntu5.1
    Candidate: 0.58-4ubuntu1
    Version table:
       0.58-4ubuntu1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages
   *** 0.47-13ubuntu5.1 0
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


> Also, what happens if you do sudo "sudo aptitude dist-upgrade" instead
> of "sudo aptitude upgrade"?

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> And please post your /etc/apt/sources.list

# Ubuntu supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted universe 
multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted 
universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-security main restricted 
universe multiverse

Note that I can't currently do an aptitude update because DNS is 
inoperative. I can connect to the net and ping remote IP addresses, but 
there appears to be a new local DNS in edgy - Avahi? - that I noticed 
fails to shutdown when closing, so I presume that it failing to start 
also. This is no surprise considering the current state of the machine; 
there are many broken bits and pieces, all of which I hope disappear 
once the appropriate packages have been released from being kept back.

Hope that helps. Thanks again for helping. 

-- 
Cheers,
Marc

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$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  gamin hpijs python2.4-libxslt1
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  courier-base gtk2-engines-clearlooks gtk2-engines-mist gtk2-engines-
smooth
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  courier-authlib dash dvipost fam libgda2-bin p7zip-full python-
numeric-ext python-scientific sdparm startup-tasks
  system-services tasksel tasksel-data tex4ht-common upstart upstart-
compat-sysv upstart-logd util-linux-locales
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  python2.4-htmlgen python2.4-libxml2 sysvinit
The following packages have been kept back:
  konversation
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  courier-authlib dash dvipost fam libgda2-bin p7zip-full python-
numeric-ext python-scientific sdparm startup-tasks
  system-services tasksel tasksel-data tex4ht-common upstart upstart-
compat-sysv upstart-logd util-linux-locales
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  python2.4-htmlgen python2.4-libxml2 sysvinit
The following packages will be upgraded:
  <snip>
150 packages upgraded, 18 newly installed, 7 to remove and 1 not 
upgraded.
Need to get 156MB/215MB of archives. After unpacking 26.7MB will be 
freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gamin: Conflicts: fam but 2.7.0-10ubuntu1 is to be installed.
  python2.4-libxslt1: Depends: python2.4-libxml2 (>= 2.6.17) but it is 
not installable
  hpijs: Conflicts: hplip-ppds (< 1.6.9-0ubuntu2) but 0.9.7-4ubuntu1 is 
installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
fam [Not Installed]
hpijs [2.1.7+0.9.7-4ubuntu1 (now)]
kscreensaver [4:3.5.2-0ubuntu4 (now)]
ksmserver [4:3.5.2-0ubuntu27 (now)]
libeel2-2 [2.14.3-0ubuntu1 (now)]
libeel2-data [2.14.3-0ubuntu1 (now)]
nautilus [2.14.3-0ubuntu1 (now)]
nautilus-cd-burner [2.14.3-0ubuntu1 (now)]
python-htmlgen [2.2.2-10ubuntu3 (now)]
python-libxml2 [2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1 (now)]
python2.4-htmlgen [2.2.2-10ubuntu3 (now)]
python2.4-libxml2 [2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1 (now)]

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