Re: libpng3 upgrade will remove kde development packages [SOLVED]

[Josh Metzler <joshdeb@metzlers.org>]

On Wednesday 23 April 2003 06:17 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mer 23/04/2003 à 22:23, Josh Metzler a écrit :
> > Shuttle:/home/josh# apt-get -s install libpng3
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >   libpng12-0
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   kdelibs4-dev kdesdk kspy libarts1-dev libartsc0-dev libpng12-0-dev
> >   libqt3-mt-dev
> > The following held packages will be changed:
> >   libpng12-0 libpng3
>
> This should be fine if you tell apt-get to install libpng12-dev
> explicitly.
> BTW, shouldn't APT deal with this case (conflicts/replaces/provides)
> automatically ?

[resent - sent to wrong address the first time]

Thanks for the hint.  libpng12-dev does both replace and provide 
libpng12-0-dev, and manually selecting to install it solved my upgrade 
issues.  It would be nice if somehow apt-get could do that automagically, but 
it is something I should have looked at earlier.

Thanks again,
Josh