tortoisehg package on 18.04 depends on mercurial (< 4.5~) but mercurial package is 4.5-1ubuntu1 (from -proposed)

[Tom Hindle]

sudo apt install tortoisehg

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 resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 tortoisehg : Depends: mercurial (< 4.5~) but 4.5-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

lsb_release -rd :

Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release: 18.04

Depends line in package control file:

Depends: mercurial (>= 4.3~), mercurial (<< 4.5~), python-gobject (>= 2.12.1),
 python-pyqt5, python-pyqt5.qsci, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
 ${python:Depends}

[Tom Hindle (3-launchpad-hindlemail-co-uk)]

I see mercurial 4.5-1ubuntu1 is from bionic-proposed

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

Yes, the mercurial package in bionic-proposed seems to be too new for tortoisehg. Maybe that's why it is still in -proposed, because it seems to have been uploaded and built early February (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mercurial/4.5-1ubuntu1).

I've also attached a Debian bug watch to a corresponding bug report there.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tortoisehg - 4.5.2-0ubuntu1

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tortoisehg (4.5.2-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version. Closes: #890307. LP: #1753546.
  * Depend on python-gi instead of python-gobject. Closes: #890175.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sat, 07 Apr 2018 15:05:32 +0200

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I've just verified that tortoisehg 4.5.2-0ubuntu1 and 4.5.3-1ubuntu2 are possible to install on Ubuntu bionic. Marking as fix released for the mercurial task as well. (Leaving the Debian task, since based on the comment above this was fixed directly in Ubuntu, but I assume they will soon get a similat package update)