On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:34:48PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:11:15AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:04:39AM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote:
> > > python-sipsimple (>= 3.0.0) seems to uninstallable because of
> > > dependencies. Is there a safe and easy way to pull them in from Debian?
> >
> > I wouldn't pull anything in from Debian. I added an independent repository for
> > up-to-date OCaml packages for Debian a while go, and its dependencies have wrecked
> > interactive aptitude. It seems to have caused some Debian packages to havee been
> > requested as dependencies, and now I have an aptitude that wants to install
> > hundreds of packages in interactive mode, none of which I want. I know of no way
> > to tell it to forget it.
> >
> > In noninteractive mode, aptitude still works fine.
> >
>
> ....ok, but Devuan backports (and main, and contrib, and non-free, and
> security, and updates) all pass through amprolla, so in theory you are
> using Devuan's repos, but in practice those repos in turn still fall
> back to Debian ones, in 95% of the cases.
>
> If you don't want to pull "anything at all from Debian" (and I would
> not see why you would like to do that, to be honest), then you'd
> better off with something else, like Arch... :)

I don't want to pull anything for Debian. What I had used was a third-party
package repository for a specific application that was more up-to-date than
Debian's jessie repository. I don't see why that application would have anything
to do with systemd. And I set it up long ago when Devuan and Debisn were still a
lot closer to each other. Still, after a while, its dependencies seem to have
infected my aptitude -- but only in interactive mode.

I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve reinstalling Devuan from scratch.
I'll do that if necessary. But that has already been discussed elsewhere on this
maling list.

Perhaps I'll have to purge aptitude and hope apt is still around to reinstall
aptitude. But that will only work if aptitude's corrupted database is indeed just
aptitude's, and not apt's.

-- hendrik

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