apt-get bug? (Re: Bug#57147: w3m is not installable (Depends: libgc5 but it is not installable))

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

At Sat, 05 Feb 2000 23:50:49 -0500,
Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> wrote:

> scorpio:~# apt-get install w3m
> 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:
>   w3m: Depends: libgc5 but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages

There are libgc5 packages in potato as 
 dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/libs/libgc5_5.0.alpha4-6.deb.
So this is not a bug of w3m.
I suppose this is a bug of apt-get or mirror site you are using is broken.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI