Bug#237509: libxft-dev: upgrade to 2.1.2-6 fails

[Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org>]

On Friday 12 March 2004 20:49, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
[snip]
>
> in the meantime, do a:
>
> $ apt-get -f install
> $ dpkg -r --force-depends libxft-dev
> $ apt-get -f install
>
> and probably a:
> $ apt-get install libxft-dev
>
>  - Christian

"apt-get -f install" will uninstall any packages which depended on 
libxft-dev, which is probably not desireable.  I used the following:

$ dpkg -r --force-depends libxft-dev
$ apt-get -f install libxft-dev=2.1.2-6

This forces dpkg to remove the pkg in spite of dependencies, then it 
asks apt-get to try to fix the broken dependencies by using libxft-dev 
version 2.1.2-6.  Note that this will only work if the only problems 
that apt knows of are dependencies on missing libxft-dev (i.e. the 
package system was in a consistent state before trying to upgrade 
libxft-dev).

...Marvin