Re: more and more broken packages?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

>    as far as I can tell each of them is broken:
> 
>    balsa: Depends: libaspell15 but it is not going to be installed
>    gedit: Depends: libaspell15 but it is not going to be installed
> 
>    and libaspell conflicts with other versions of libaspell (I guess, 
> when I try to install libaspell15 it wants to remove other versions of 
> libaspell* and bunch of other programs that depend on these other versions).

aspell maintainer has made transition as painful as possible.
I think it should be possible to work with just the Replaces, and 
not the Conflicts, for easier transition, if the file contents aren't 
really changed but just the package names.

> 
>    nautilus: Depends: libeel2-2 (>= 2.1.91) but 2.0.8-2 is to be installed
>              Depends: libnautilus2-2 (>= 2.1.91) but 2.0.8-1 is to be 

That's a different matter, probably waiting for ftpmaster ?


> installed
> 
>    pd: Depends: libjack0.34.0-0 (>= 0.34.0) but it is not installable
> 
>    and then:
> 
> E: Package libjack0.34.0-0 has no installation candidate

should be recompiled against newer libjack.