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Author: Mark Hindley
Date:  
To: José Marinho
CC: devuan developers internal list, Dng
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] [DNG] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:41:29AM +0200, José Marinho wrote:
> For the first point, you are right, the final hyphen makes a big difference
> and now I am free of the dbus delay and can reach a GUI through Lightdm.


Great!

> But the other issue persists:
> root@dserver:~# apt install --purge policykit-1
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> 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:
>  policykit-1 : Depends: libpolkit-agent-1-0 (= 0.105-25+devuan4) but 0.105-25 is to be installed
>                Depends: libpolkit-backend-1-0 (= 0.105-25+devuan4)
>                Depends: libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 0.105-25+devuan4)
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


I think this is a problem in devuan's task-xfce-desktop.

We are quite behind debian (buster has 3.53, beowulf has 3.48+devuan1.1) and
devuan's version also has a (now) unhelpful dependency on
libpolkit-backend-consolekit-1-0.

Could you try removing task-xfce-desktop first?

Thanks.

Mark