Apt PackageKit backend throws error when unmet dependencies are encountered

[Jonathan Thomas]

Binary package hint: packagekit

To reproduce:
-Install iceweasel-vimperator with KPackagekit

The iceweasel-vimperator package is a broken package, having unsatisfiable dependencies. The apt PackageKit backend seems to not care for this too much:

Excuse the all-in-one-line-ness of the traceback, KPackageKit makes the error lose it's formatting.

Error Type: Error Value: not enough arguments for format string File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1941, in main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1938, in main run(args, options.single) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1900, in run backend.dispatcher(args) File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 636, in dispatcher self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 511, in dispatch_command self.get_depends(filters, package_ids, recursive) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1367, in get_depends "Dependecies for $s cannot be satisfied: $s" $ e)

In addition, it misspells "Dependencies" in the last line of the traceback, though that's really a separate issue and not too major at that.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package packagekit - 0.4.9+20090825-0ubuntu2

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packagekit (0.4.9+20090825-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches:
    - Add disable_werror: Unset the Werror compile flag to fix FTBS on armel
    - Add fix_get_depends: Cherry pick fa693068675742e17177534a23feb627b9ab7455
      to report the broken packages correctly in get_(depends|requires)
      (LP: #418834)
    - Add fix_unset_locale: Cherry pick 42c8fda9e0b3d4109b70035027562fa90b3471be
      to not fail on unsetting LC_ALL (LP: #420348)

 -- Sebastian Heinlein <email address hidden> Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:23:42 +0200