update-manager is not a direct dependency of ubuntu-desktop (was: update-manager removed with todays upgrades [19/4/2008])

[nstamoul]

Binary package hint: update-manager

After doing todays dist-upgrade proposed by the update-manager it removed 3 packages (obsoleted ?) and one of them was update-manager (by the way,anybody recall the other 2?).

Trying to reinstall the package was of course not possible due to unmet dependancies.Here is the output of sudo apt-get install update-manager:

$ sudo apt-get install update-manager
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.

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:
  update-manager: Depends: update-manager-core (= 1:0.87.18) but 1:0.87.21 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

[MeNtAl_DaRkNeSs (mentaldarkness-pt)]

Something happened to me ;___;
What should we do?

[emre.bag (emre-bag)]

Same thing here.
I suspect and updated update-manager will fix this problem and i base this assumption on absolutely nothing.

[nstamoul (nikos-gr)]

Update-manager can not fix this.It is not installed :P
All we can do is wait for the updated version and install it via apt.

[Laurent GUERBY (laurent-guerby)]

Same thing for me, I was using update-manager -d but it disappeared at the end, I ran apt-get update/dist-upgrade but then no more update-manager and same message as above when I try to install it.

[nstamoul (nikos-gr)]

On my laptop (i386,the other one is x64) it does not do this.It does not ask for an update of update-manager.

Forgot to mention that I am of course running Hardy Beta (of RC as of today).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

It looks like the root of the problem is that update-manager is not a dependency of ubuntu-desktop. This would have prevented update-manager from being removed.

The problem will go eventually away when update-manager is build on all architectures (currently there is a version mismatch between it and -core), but its still bad that the package got removed.

[nstamoul (nikos-gr)]

Just remembered.

One of the other 2 packages removed was ubuntu-desktop.I didn't worry to much about that because I know this is a meta-package.

[Raghvendra Sharma (raghav)]

I faced something similar, but in a discussion on ubuntuforums, it turned out that the problem is a bit more generic.

I logged in this bug - 219444:: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/219444

[Xavier Lapointe (lapointe-xavier)]

Well, Michael has done the right thing:

(amd 64 version, others on your left.)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/amd64/update-manager/1:0.87.21

[Xavier Lapointe (lapointe-xavier)]

Oups, sorry about that, here's the right link:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+package/update-manager

[nstamoul (nikos-gr)]

Problem solved!

[Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount)]

The correct version of update manager has been uploaded. Closing bug

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I did the seed changed I mentioned earlier, this should prevent this problem from happening again in the future. Sorry for the trouble.

Cheers,
 Michael

[FredBezies (fredbezies-deactivatedaccount)]

It is happening again, this time with 0.87.23 version :(

I had to download "by hand" update-manager 0.87.23 to get out of trouble :(