Re: Unmet build dependencies for openssh?

[Pete Harlan <harlan@artselect.com>]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Niklas ?gren wrote:
> Pete,
> 
> If you think you're running sarge, and have that in /etc/apt/sources.list, 
> it may be good to downgrade some packages if you find them with 
> "apt-show-versions|grep unstable"..
> I was running a mix of sarge/sid from the old /pure64 and /debian-amd64, 
> and downgrading all packages that I could, manually, solved me some 
> problems.

Thank you---this helped a lot.  Not "grep unstable", which didn't
match anything, but "grep newer", which produced:

	libreadline4 4.3-14 newer than version in archive
	libpam-modules 0.76-22.0.0.1.amd64 newer than version in archive
	libpcre3 4.5-1.1.0.0.1.amd64 newer than version in archive
	debconf-i18n 1.4.39 newer than version in archive
	mpack 1.6-1.0.0.1.amd64 newer than version in archive
	libc6-dev 2.3.5-1 newer than version in archive
	libc6 2.3.5-1 newer than version in archive
	procps 1:3.2.3-1 newer than version in archive
	bash 3.0-8 newer than version in archive
	libacl1 2.2.26-1 newer than version in archive
	debianutils 2.10.3 newer than version in archive
	libattr1 2.4.18-1 newer than version in archive
	cpp 4:3.4.2-2 newer than version in archive
	gcc 4:3.4.2-2 newer than version in archive
	g++ 4:3.4.2-2 newer than version in archive
	libpam-runtime 0.76-22.0.0.1.amd64 newer than version in archive
	tcsh 6.13.01-4 newer than version in archive
	libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-9.0.0.1.pure64 newer than version in archive
	locales 2.3.5-1 newer than version in archive
	debconf 1.4.39 newer than version in archive

Except for the libc/locales from experimental, none of the others
should have been there.  They are probably left over from the original
installation waaaay back, when the machine was on the gcc-3.4 archive.

(When I converted to the pure64 archive, I had done a --reinstall on
all packages, and enough time had passed (six months?) since my last
gcc-3.4 update that I'd figured Sarge would have had upgrades for them
all anyway.)

Downgrading or removing various of these packages made it so "apt-get
build-dep ssh" now succeeds.

Thank you guys for your help; I apologize for not mentioning the
gcc-3.4 history of the box, it seems to have been the relevant detail.

--Pete