Re: errors during recent dist-upgrades
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> ============================== rather large snip ===========================
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wordnet-base:
> wordnet-base depends on wordnet; however:
> Package wordnet is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing wordnet-base (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>
> ============================== somewhat smaller snip ========================
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> wordnet-base
That explains everything - wordnet and wordnet-base have a cyclic
dependency - dpkg will ignore that only if they are both configured at the
same time, for cyclic depends APT doesn't do that [I don't see how given
the command line length issues]
These are bugs in wordnet that results in a screwball error message..
Jason
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