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[Niklas Andersson <niklas.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ballock, and thanks!

 I found out that the problem is related to aptdaemon and not packagekit.
(Installing PackageKit actually solves the problem).

Bug is filed [1]

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/1319454

Best regards,
Niklas


2014-05-14 11:54 GMT+02:00 Bolesław Tokarski <boleslaw.tokarski@xxxxxxxxx>:

> So, from the looks of it, it seems that PackageKit is trying to install an
> older version than the latest available from the archive, but as the system
> already has newer versions of the dependencies, it refuses to install older
> versions of dependent packages.
>
> The question then is, should PackageKit not pass the version at all and
> let apt pick the version it feels latest or most convenient (this cares
> also about apt-preferences and holds marked upon packages) or should it
> have better package version handling itself. I vote for the former.
>
> I found version 0.8.17 in Debian jessie, should be possible to backport
> that if you are interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Ballock
>
>