Re: Why a package is removed or kept back?
* Erich Schubert (erich@debian.org) wrote:
> > Why is it removing the qt3 dev packages? I checked gdk-imlib-dev,
> > libpng2-dev and libgnome-dev for conflicts with the qt3 dev libraries,
> > but I don't see any mentioned. So why are they being removed on this
> > install? it doesn't make sense to me.
>
> Without having looked at the dependencies:
> Maybe gnome depends on libpng2-dev, which conflicts with libpng-dev,
> which is required for libqt3-dev ?
> Check the dependencies of libqt3-dev, too!
Thanks.
That turns out to be the case, and I hope gnome2 fixes this by requiring
libpng-dev instead of libpng#-dev. Otherwise it seems you can't develop
for the one when you are developing for the other. Now that just isn't
fair ;-)
However, that doesn't fully answer my queston. Isn't there a tool or a
command I can use to determine why a package was kept back or removed?
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