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.
>

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>

> 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

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