Can't install gnome-panel, is sid currently broken ?

Dani1973 · 04-22-2011, 05:04 PM

I have been running testing on a desktop for a few weeks now but I needed a more recent version of wine so I tried upgrading to sid.

After the upgrade gnome was only showing the background and the mouse pointer, so I did some digging and found that gnome-panel was not installed but removed instead.
Also aptitude was asking to remove a huge amount of packages, but I didn't do that part since I was sure that it was a mistake.

When I tried to install gnome-panel I received a dependency error. The missing packages are python2.5 packages while python2.6 has been installed when upgrading to sid.

Since that machine didn't hold much data and was easy to re-install, I just took my latest netinstall CD and did a clean testing installation.
During installation, I only selected standard system and desktop environment in tasksel.
I checked if everything was working well and tried upgrading to sid.
To my surprise I ended up with the same problem.

Looks like I am unlucky and got caught in the middle of a version transition of the python packages.

Is sid currently broken?

Is there anyway to make aptitude ignore that dependency?
In the current sid repo there are no python2.5 packages but only 2.6 (or maybe I am blind)

Would be nice to have a solution to this otherwise it will be ubuntu for my desktop because I need a quick fix, but I would hate to run ubuntu on my desktop while all my servers are running debian.

TobiSGD · 04-22-2011, 05:11 PM

The versions of wine in wheezy and sid are currently the same, so upgrading to sid will not give you a newer version.

Dani1973 · 04-22-2011, 06:25 PM

sid has wine-unstable which is currently 1.1.32

craigevil · 04-22-2011, 07:12 PM

Short answer YES Gnome in sid is uninstallable at the moment.

Code:

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:
 gnome-panel : Depends: gnome-about (>= 2.10.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: python-gnome2 but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: python-gconf but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Dani1973 · 04-22-2011, 07:18 PM

I don't have much "experience" with sid, but how long does it mostly take for such transitions to fix this.

1-2 days? a week?

Is there a way to fix this : like ignoring the dependency on python2.5 since we have 2.6 already

craigevil · 04-22-2011, 09:00 PM

Could get fixed today, could get fix in a month, you just never know. The reason is most likely Gnome 3 is currently in transition.

I would install a different panel like tint2, lxpanel, fbpanel, awesome, cairo-dock, docky, wbar.