[parisc-linux] locales held back

[parisc-linux] locales held back

[Frank Alden Smith]

hi,

For the last two days I've been told by apt-get upgrade that the locales
package has been held back. Today I decided to try apt-get install
locales with this result:

puccini:~# apt-get install locales
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-8 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages

Any, idea how I can resolve the problem, or must I just be patient until
the broken glibc-2.2.5-8 is fixed?

Take care,
frank

Re: [parisc-linux] locales held back

[eddantes]

Frank Alden Smith wrote:
> hi,
> 
> For the last two days I've been told by apt-get upgrade that the locales
> package has been held back. Today I decided to try apt-get install
> locales with this result:
> 
> puccini:~# apt-get install locales
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 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.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-8 but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
> Any, idea how I can resolve the problem, or must I just be patient until
> the broken glibc-2.2.5-8 is fixed?
> 
> Take care,
> frank


That's a pretty common situation in Debian Sid (unstable), especially 
between locales and glibc. I've seen it happen qui a lot of times, but 
it's just harmless.

This situation will end in a few days, just let time to package 
maintainers to do their job and release correcly compiled and packaged 
software.

/Dantes

Re: [parisc-linux] locales held back

[Matt Taggart]

eddantes@wanadoo.fr writes...

> Frank Alden Smith wrote:

> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-8 but it is not installable
> > E: Sorry, broken packages
> > 
> > Any, idea how I can resolve the problem, or must I just be patient until
> > the broken glibc-2.2.5-8 is fixed?
> > 
> > Take care,
> > frank
> 
> 
> That's a pretty common situation in Debian Sid (unstable), especially 
> between locales and glibc. I've seen it happen qui a lot of times, but 
> it's just harmless.

BTW- IIRC this is due the the fact that libc6 and locales have lock-step
dependencies. So when a new glibc package comes out the binary-all
locales package is immediatatly available for all architectures but the
arch-specific packages like libc aren't until they've been built for
each architecture. So as eddantes pointed out, just wait a few days and
they'll be sync'd back up.

Or you could run testing which doesn't have this problem(by definition).

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@fc.hp.com