what's up with this?

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

Anybody got any clue?

Thanks

p.

europa:~# apt-get install xpm4g-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xpm4g-dev: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: xlib6g-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
europa:~# dpkg --status xlib6g-dev
Package: xlib6g-dev
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.0.2-1
Depends: xlibs-dev, libxaw-dev
Description: pseudopackage providing X library development files
 This package smooths the migration from Debian 2.2 by depending on
 xlibs-dev and libxaw-dev.  This pseudopackage is only depended upon by
 packages that haven't yet corrected their dependencies to reflect the new
 library arrangement.

europa:~# dpkg --status xlib6g
Package: xlib6g
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.0.2-1
Depends: xlibs, libxaw6
Description: pseudopackage providing X libraries
 This package smooths the migration from Debian 2.2 by depending on xlibs
 and libxaw6.  This pseudopackage is only depended upon by packages that
 haven't yet been compiled against the newer X library packages.