Bug#433865: update-manager: Reports updates are available,..

Package: update-manager
Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-15
Severity: important


update-manager reports 10 updates available, pressing install updates
results in a dialog which says: -

Could not apply changes!
Fix broken packages first.

Checking in Synaptic reports: -

0 packages listed, 1635 installed, 0 broken. 0 to install/upgrade, 0 to
remove

Doing an update in synaptic (reload,mark all upgrades, apply) does not
resolve the problem.

The problem first reared it's head when I had some problems with
texlive-base that I never got to the bottom of. As I didn't use the
package I just removed texlive-base (and kde) from my system.

I suspect that update-manager has some cached information about broken
packages (texlive-base), though I cannot seem to tell it that the
packages have been removed and are thus not broken any more.

A workaround for the problem in the shotr term would be very useful
thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-mh2micehice2 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages update-manager depends on:
ii libgnome2-perl 1.040-1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii lsb-release 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base version report
ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-apt 0.7.2 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii python-glade2 2.10.6-1 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gnome2 2.18.2-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii python-gnupginterface 0.3.2-9 Python interface to GnuPG (GPG)
ii python-support 0.6.4 automated rebuilding support for p
ii synaptic 0.60 Graphical package manager

update-manager recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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Em Qui, 2007-07-19 às 23:40 +0100, chrisg escreveu:
> There are six packages which update-manager thinks are upgradeable, but
> synaptic thinks are up to date, these are: -
>
> evolution
> [...]
> If I try to reinstall these in synaptic, they are still not recognized as
> being up-to-date by update-manager.
>
> The tool is at least usable now, though it is reporting false information..
>

I don't think it is false information. These are probably packages which
have new versions available but which cannot be upgraded because of
missing or broken dependencies. I'm preparing an updated update-manager
today, if you could get it from unstable and test what it does to these
packages I'd be grateful. I'll post them here so you can reach them
before they get to unstable (which should have happened tomorrow at this
same time =P).

See you,

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