Re: Bug#217355: acknowledged by developer (fixed)
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:47:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:28:48AM +0100, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Architecture: all packages such as locales are only built on one
> > > architecture, but used by all architectures regardless of whether the
> > > rest of the source package has been built for them. This saves all the
> > > build daemons having to build identical packages.
> > It seems I'm facing this same problem again:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > # apt-get install locales
> [...]
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-10 but it is not installable
> > E: Broken packages
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I understand the reasons why it occurs, but something should _really_
> > be done to avoid that many people like me should face this problem
> > again. Just think about the cumulated time all these people will
> > lose...
> Why are you mailing me? I don't maintain glibc.
Sorry, I mailed that to you because I'm not a debian developper
myself, and you were talking about this.
(glibc maintainers now Cc'ed)
> Anyway, just wait a bit and it'll be fine, or download the older version
> of locales by hand. It's not difficult.
While waiting or downgrading is an option, I simply insist on the fact
that this problem shouldn't issue _at all_, and that it should be
fixed by preventing this from happening.
Thanks,
Hervé
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