Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive
MoiN
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions
> I know of (main, contrib, non-free, non-us/main, non-us/contrib,
> non-us/non-free), and went and checked wether all the dependencies
> can be satisfied. As it turns out, there are many packages referencing
> other non-existant packages.
You mean you did "apt-cache unmet"?
I get 94 Packages with unmet dependencies (please try "apt-cache unmet"
to see why):
bbdb bigloo blacs-lam-test camlp4 cjk-latex cocoon
communicator-dmotif-408 communicator-smotif-408 cxterm-gb cxterm-jis
dbf2msql dbf2mysql dome egon emacs-czech enlightenment erlang-mode
explorer fidogate fml fortify freewrl fvwm95 fweb glide2-base
gnu-smalltalk gstep-extensions gstep-extensions-dbg gstep-extensions-dev
gstep-guile gstep-guile-dev hanterm ibcs2.0.35 kernel-image-2.2.13pre17
langdrill lib-rxtx-java lib-xslp-java libdbd-msql-perl libggi2
libglide2-v3 libguile4-dev librx1-altdev libsensors0 libsrp-dev
lm-sensors macgate metro-motif-man navigator-dmotif-408 netscape-base-4
newsflash pcmcia-modules-2.0.35 pcmcia-modules-2.0.36
pcmcia-modules-2.2.1 pcmcia-modules-2.2.10 pcmcia-modules-2.2.12
pcmcia-modules-2.2.13 pcmcia-modules-2.2.5 pcmcia-modules-2.2.7
pcmcia-modules-2.2.9 perspic php3-cgi-msql php3-msql ppxp qmtpssh
roxen-ssl rplay-server rxvt-ml sane-gimp1.1 scalapack-doc scwm seyon
snmptraplogd stl-manual task-chinese-s task-chinese-t task-objc-dev
task-sgml-dev tksmb vchkpw vrweb w3-el-e20 wily wordnet-doc
xfonts-intl-european xgmod xirc xpw xsane-gimp1.1 xsiag xsqlmenu yard
yiff-utils zmailer zmailer-ssl
> Should I file bugs and if so, what type?
I think this should be release critical, because those packages are
broken (at least those 35 that appear on "apt-cache -i unmet"). But you
should look if they have already filed bugs against them.
Ingo
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