virtualbox-guest-x11 uninstallable in Precise with LTS Enablement Stacks

[Matthias Czapla]

On 12.04.02 with linux-generic-lts-quantal and as required xserver-xorg-lts-quantal installed virtualbox-guest-x11 cannot be installed without downgrading the X stack to the original precise version:

root@horst:~# aptitude install virtualbox-guest-x11
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxcomposite1{a} virtualbox-guest-x11 xserver-xorg-core{a}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  libgl1-mesa-dri
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,358 kB of archives. After unpacking 9,563 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 xserver-xorg-lts-quantal : Conflicts: xserver-xorg-core (>= 0~) but 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.12 is to be installed.
 xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal : Conflicts: xserver-xorg-core but 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.12 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1) xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal
2) xserver-xorg-input-evdev-lts-quantal
3) xserver-xorg-input-kbd-lts-quantal
4) xserver-xorg-input-mouse-lts-quantal
5) xserver-xorg-lts-quantal
6) xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-lts-quantal
7) xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-quantal
8) xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-lts-quantal
9) xserver-xorg-video-vesa-lts-quantal

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) virtualbox-guest-x11 [Not Installed]
2) xserver-xorg-core [Not Installed]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alexey Borzenkov (snaury)]

This bug now affects Ubuntu 12.04.3. On a freshly installed system virtualbox-guest-x11 cannot be installed:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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 to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 virtualbox-guest-x11 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11
                        Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, vbox maintainer here, sorry but I would like to avoid patching the same issue on precise.
if you move to trusty you can find all the lts versions you want (for guest packages).

Patching precise at this time would be a waste of time, specially because I would have to redo the packaging from scratch.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

closing as fixed for trusty and later and wontfix for precise. sorry.