Warning: I am not in a good mood, as always when upgrading frequently used debian running desktop machine.
I changed sources.list to contain the following contents:
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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20111008-19:52]/ squeeze main
deb http://ftp.cvut.cz/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.cvut.cz/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main non-free contrib
Then I ran
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apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
which went through fine. Then I tried apt-get dist-upgrade, which complained about some dependencies for network-manager-gnome and modemmanager (if I recall correctly).
Well, I remembered that usually people recommend removing desktop manager before upgrade, so I went ahead and removed with
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apt-get remove gdm3
Then dist upgrade succeeded.
The new problem was, that I could not install gnome back, because of the same unmet dependencies. Well, OK, Jessie refuses to work, I was stuck, thought to have a clean system only without desktop manager, so I decided to upgrade further to sid. Everything went smoothly, but same problem persist. I cannot install gnome. Heck, I cannot even install XFCE.
My current sources.list:
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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20111008-19:52]/ squeeze main
deb http://ftp.cvut.cz/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.cvut.cz/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
#deb http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main
Some samples:
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root@asgard:~# apt-get install gdm3
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gdm3 : Depends: libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gnome-session-bin (>= 3.10) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gnome-settings-daemon (>= 3.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gnome-shell (>= 3.10.1-2~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: accountsservice (>= 0.6.12) but it is not installable
Recommends: zenity
Recommends: gnome-icon-theme but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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root@asgard:~# apt-get install accountsservice
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package accountsservice is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'accountsservice' has no installation candidate
Now, how is it possible that such a popular desktop manager has a dependency accountsservice, and at the same time accountsservice is missing in both sid and testing repositories???