Re: apt-get should correctly process dependencies

[Pedro Guerreiro <digito@bigfoot.com>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:49:10PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 100, Pedro Miguel Guerreiro wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > When installing a fresh potato, the following has happened:
> > 
> > I've installed just the base files, and then I'm installing one by one, only
> > tha packages that I want, in no special order, as I'm needing them. When I
> > tryed to install linuxconf, apt-get give me the following:
> >...
> > The reasoning is: apt-get should see that linuxconf depends on logrotate, and
> > that this dependes on mailx, the same way as it sees that mailx dependes on
> > liblockfile1 and zmailer-ssl, and install (or suggest to) the whole pack.
> >...
> 
> Which version of apt do you use? The version in slink or the one in
> potato? The release notes for potato will include a notice that you should
> update apt before doing any other updates.

Please read my initial statment: "When installing a fresh potato..." :-)

pmg