Lucid: package language-pack-gnome-fr cannot be upgraded

[David Ayers]

Upgrading via Landscape gives me the following message:
Can't install language-pack-gnome-fr_1:10.04+20110204: no package provides language-pack-gnome-fr-base >= 1:10.04+20110204

Upgrading via aptitude giving the following message:
ayers@speckstein:~$ LANG=C sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  language-pack-gnome-fr
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2056B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  language-pack-gnome-fr: Depends: language-pack-gnome-fr-base (>= 1:10.04+20110204) but 1:10.04+20100714 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
language-pack-gnome-fr
language-pack-gnome-fr-base

Score is 188

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

So must I simply wait until 1:10.04+20110204 becomes available?
I would suspect that there should be some mechanism that insures that the dependencies are checked when packages are uploaded for distribution (esp. on an LTS release).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: language-pack-gnome-fr 1:10.04+20100714
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-32.62-generic-pae 2.6.32.38+drm33.16
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-32-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 22 15:43:29 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-pack-gnome-fr

[Alan AZZERA (azzera-alan)]

I can confirm the bug. I uninstalled the pack, and then tried to reinstall it. Here is the relevant output :

root@mypc:~# aptitude install language-pack-gnome-fr
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Lecture de l'information d'état étendu
Initialisation de l'état des paquets... Fait
Les paquets suivants sont CASSÉS :
  language-pack-gnome-fr
0 paquets mis à jour, 1 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 15 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de télécharger 2 056o d'archives. Après dépaquetage, 36,9ko seront utilisés.
Les paquets suivants ont des dépendances non satisfaites :
  language-pack-gnome-fr: Dépend: language-pack-gnome-fr-base (>= 1:10.04+20110204) mais il n'est pas installable
                          Dépend: language-pack-fr-base (>= 1:10.04+20110204) mais 1:10.04+20100714 est installé.
Les actions suivantes permettront de résoudre ces dépendances :

Installer les paquets suivants :
language-pack-gnome-fr [1:10.04+20100421 (lucid)]
language-pack-gnome-fr-base [1:10.04+20100421 (lucid)]

Le score est de -9949

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[sacha@ubuntu (sacha-b77)]

Hello.

I can confirm this bug too.

Update-manager cannot upgrade package language-pack-gnome-fr because dependencies are broken with another package called "base" of FR language.

Workaround?

Uninstall packages and reinstall it with a "sudo aptitude install language-pack-gnome-fr" command gives a good result and reinsall old versions of those packages. After, Update-manager cannot upgrade, the bug still here but the language on system is good. On update manager, the two packages are not selected in the window. Upgrade is impossible to the new version.

[sacha@ubuntu (sacha-b77)]

@David and Alan :

Did you have installed the firefox stable PPA with ubuntu-tweak or manually?

They are, in this PPA, a lot of "update language packages" named like "language-pack-fr" and "language-pack-fr-base", not gnome of course.

They are not dependancies with language-pack-gnone-fr but desccribed on launchpad as similar.

In link with our problem? A possible confusion update? I think no, it's for mozilla packages, but...

[Yann (lostec)]

Same problem, after trying to remove language-pack-gnome-fr et install again, some package dependency version incoherency with language-pack-gnome-fr-base seems to lock update:

language-pack-gnome-fr: Dépend: language-pack-gnome-fr-base (>= 1:10.04+20110204) mais ne sera pas installé

mozilla ppa was set but removing it and FF5 just downloaded does not solve the issue after being back to lucid current 3.6.18

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

In Lucid, I've also had "language-pack-gnome-fr" 1:10.04+20110204 stuck in Update Manager in Lucid for a for days (sometimes greyed out, always unselectable). Presumably for lack of other language-pack-fr packages in matching versions (I haven't checked). It's not doing me any harm, though, since I still have the old version installed.

"Me too" post to add: I'm not using any weirdo PPAs; just Lucid's main, restricted, universe, multiverse. Amd64 desktop edition.

Here is someone else on the Ubuntu forums with the same problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1789606

[sacha@ubuntu (sacha-b77)]

Hello!

New fix method : Activate the "Proposed" repos. and install language-pack-gnome-fr solve the breakage of dependencie. After that, close the "proposed" repos.

See this post on ubuntu-fr.org :

http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=547371&p=3

Since, it's ok for my lucid! ;-)

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

So, the question is, how did language-pack-gnome-fr make it from "proposed" to "updates" without its dependencies? Surely that shouldn't happen?

As I say, this isn't doing me any harm, but presumably it would break any fresh install/upgrade involving the French language from the repositories. Perhaps CD installs get away with it if they have the old packages on the CD (up until the CD images are refreshed for a point release).

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

I was going to suggest that the package changelog would tell us why there was an update in the first place, so we could alert the people involved. But language-pack packages don't seem to have useful changelogs. Grumble.

[Ophir LOJKINE (pere-jobs)]

I'm also affected by this bug. Please do something. I can't get gnome to speak french!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I checked this for all other languages, and it only affects -fr and -gv.

Both fixed in the master archive, will hit the mirrors in a few hours.

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

For the record, it looks like following the procedure at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#regressions might have got this resolved more quickly.

(I confirm it's fixed, by the way.)