bacula dependency on bacula-server fails with held broken packages

Oh, and this happens on my workstation as well, so it doesn't seem to be an isolated case.

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

I was able to reproduce the reported behaviour on an update clean install of Precise.

I have the same problem. I thought upgrading to 12.04 would, you know, be an 'upgrade' form 10.04. I thought after all these years maybe Ubuntu developers have gotten out of the habit of breaking computers on upgrade. I was mistaken. I guess it's back to 10.04 for a few more years as Bacula is the most important task my Ubuntu box runs.

It's not really that serious a problem given that you can just install the bits you actually need.

sudo apt-get install bacula-server bacula-console

was all I needed for my purposes.

Yes it can be worked around by installing the required 'bacula-*' packages. The problem is only with the 'bacula' meta-package. The bacula installation by installing the specific 'bacula-*' packages is fully functional in 12.04.

I think this is something todo with the fact that there is a SRU update of bacula in updates (xxx6.1) which is confusing apt when you try to install the meta-package as it does not have a versioned dependency on bacula-server.

I think this should actually work - asking people more knowledgeable than myself in #irc

This issue is caused by:

Recommends: bacula-sd-tools

in the bacula-sd package; from 11.10 onwards the resolver manages to pick bacula-sd-sqllite3 which then conflicts with the mysql version.

This has been fixed in quantal by preferring the bacula-sd-mysql package in this dependency statement.

Fix uploaded to -proposed for oneiric and precise for SRU team review.

Hello Douglas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Douglas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted bacula into oneiric-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bacula/5.0.3-1ubuntu5.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package bacula - 5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2

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bacula (5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make the bacula package installable (LP: #1034962):
    - d/control: bacula-sd - Recommend bacula-sd-mysql | bacula-sd-tools to
      ensure that a conflict is not generated during dependency resolution
      between the mysql and sqlite3 versions of bacula-sd.
 -- James Page <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:22:27 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package bacula - 5.0.3-1ubuntu5.1

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bacula (5.0.3-1ubuntu5.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Make the bacula package installable (LP: #1034962):
    - d/control: bacula-sd - Recommend bacula-sd-mysql | bacula-sd-tools to
      ensure that a conflict is not generated during package dependency
      resolution between the mysql and sqlite3 versions of bacula-sd.
 -- James Page <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:24:41 +0100