Re: libgnome-dev uninstallable?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>on debian testing:
>
>jojda:/home/erik# apt-get install libgnome-dev
>...
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libgnome-dev: Depends: libgnome32 (= 1.0.56-3) but 1.2.8-3 is to be
>installed
>                Depends: libgnorba-dev but it is not going to be
>installed
>E: Sorry, broken packages
>
>  should the *-dev packages be available for the same version as their
>respective non-dev packages?

Are you sure you haven't grabbed a package from
unstable/Ximian/Progeny/whatever at some point in the past?

  [cjwatson@auric ~]$ madison libgnome-dev
  libgnome-dev |   1.0.56-3 |        stable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k,
                                              powerpc, sparc
  libgnome-dev |   1.0.56-3 |       testing | alpha, arm, i386, m68k,
                                              powerpc, sparc
  libgnome-dev |    1.2.4-3 |      unstable | hurd-i386
  libgnome-dev |   1.2.13-2 |      unstable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k,
                                              mips, powerpc, sparc
  [cjwatson@auric ~]$ madison libgnome32
  libgnome32 |   1.0.56-3 |        stable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k,
                                            powerpc, sparc
  libgnome32 |   1.0.56-3 |       testing | alpha, arm, i386, m68k,
                                            powerpc, sparc
  libgnome32 |    1.2.4-3 |      unstable | hurd-i386
  libgnome32 |   1.2.13-2 |      unstable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k, mips,
                                            powerpc, sparc

Looks like libgnome32 and libgnome-dev are consistent enough in testing.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]