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Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch

From Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch
Date 2017-03-04 23:20 +0100
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On 2017-03-04 18:53 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:

> Given that Stretch is in the final freeze phase, I thought it was a good
> idea to upgrade my desktop computer from Jessie to Stretch to start
> getting used to using it.
>
> After updating to the latest version of stable and changing "jessie" to
> "stretch" in sources.list, I started with the usual procedure: updating
> APT and other utilities, to have available the improvements that have
> been introduced.

I'm not sure if this has actually been recommended for the last few
releases, and for Stretch it is almost certainly a bad idea.

> # apt-get install apt dpkg aptitude -V
>
> But this seems to cause some VLC dependencies to break:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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:
>  libvlccore8 : Breaks: vlc (< 2.2.4-7~) but 2.2.4-1~deb8u1 is to be
> installed
>                Breaks: vlc-nox (< 2.2.4-7~) but 2.2.4-1~deb8u1 is to be
> installed
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
> caused by held packages.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Did this happen to anyone else?

Probably yes, because of the libstdc++6 transition[1,2] that required
changing the package name of many C++ libraries and an unusually high
amount of Breaks.

Your best bet is probably to just try "apt-get dist-upgrade" and if that
does not work, file a bug against the upgrade-reports pseudopackage.

Good luck,
Sven


1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/07/msg00000.html
2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/08/msg00002.html

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Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-04 23:00 +0100
  Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-03-04 23:20 +0100
    Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 01:50 +0100
      Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-05 15:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2017-03-27 18:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 21:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch kAt <giathnygeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-27 23:40 +0200
            Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-03-28 00:00 +0200
              Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-28 19:20 +0200
    Re: Issues with KDE from Debian Stretch [was: Upgrading Jessie to  Stretch] Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-05 04:30 +0100
      Re: Issues with KDE from Debian Stretch [was: Upgrading Jessie to  Stretch] Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-06 03:00 +0100

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