Re: what happened to libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2?
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists <tpo2@sourcepole.ch> was heard to say:
> > tpo2:/home/tpo# apt-get install hello-debhelper
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Sorry, hello-debhelper is already the newest version.
> > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > deity: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2
> > python-apt: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2
> > synaptic: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2
> > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> > specify a solution).
> >
> > Has it been pulled from testing/unstable? And why haven't
> > deity, python-apt and synaptic been pulled from testing at the same time?
> > Testing is broken this way.
>
> Are you sure? libapt-pkg is always provided by apt, and the version
> of apt in testing provides that particular libapt-pkg.
>
> I got a bug report against aptitude for this problem some time back, and
> it turned out the user was running an unreleased CVS snapshot of apt.
> Could that be happening here?
Argh! Exactly. Thanks a lot Daniel.
This is rather sneaky. The error message should IMO make it clear that
what's missing is a _virtual_ package. Is there a way for apt to know that
a Dependency is a virtual package?
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