Broken Package - mozilla-mailnews

Bug #3250 reported by dave58
32
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mozilla (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

ltub1:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-mailnews
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mozilla-mailnews: Depends: mozilla-browser (= 2:1.7.12-0ubuntu05.04) but 2:1.7.12-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

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dave58 (dave58) wrote :

Also:-
ltub1:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mozilla: Depends: mozilla-browser (= 2:1.7.12-0ubuntu05.04) but 2:1.7.12-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
           Depends: mozilla-mailnews (= 2:1.7.12-0ubuntu05.04) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: mozilla-psm (= 2:1.7.12-0ubuntu05.04) but 2:1.7.12-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

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Trent Lloyd (lathiat) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report

Can you let me know what distribution you are using? Including /etc/apt/sources.list would be good also

This package is installable fine in breezy with a standard set of sources.

Changed in mozilla:
assignee: nobody → motu
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dave58 (dave58) wrote :

distribution is breezy, after an upgrade from hoary.
/etc/apt/sources.list breezy deb list is:
 deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
 deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
 deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
##java pkg = "sun-j2re1.5"
 deb http://ubuntu.tower-net.de/ubuntu/ breezy java

A script output log of
 cat /etc/apt/sources.list
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get upgrade [there was 1 pkg updated.]
 sudo apt-get install mozilla
 find /var/cache -name mozilla-\*
is available at:
http://server-2580.homeip.net/networking/bug3250_1.txt

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dave58 (dave58) wrote :

I found the problem.

It seems that the base package, or the one that I had after a hoary install followed by a network dist-upgrade to breezy, doesn't contain an /etc/apt/sources.list repository entry for "breezy-updates universe"

After manually adding this element, the mozilla install was sucessful.

My sources.list now reads:

 deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted universe
 deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted universe
 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted universe

Is this a bug in the breezy distribution upgrade and updates procedure(s)? And if so, where should a new bug report be opened?

regards,

/dave

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Thierry Moisan (thierryn) wrote :

rejecting since "breezy-updates universe" is not set as default as "breezy universe", and if you add universe, you should add updates and security for it too by yourself.

Changed in mozilla:
status: New → Rejected
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