Bug#20471: 20471 what's going on?
On 7 Oct 2002, Thomas Hood wrote:
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> dpkg: considering removing kbd in favour of kbd-compat ...
> dpkg: yes, will remove kbd in favour of kbd-compat.
> [...]
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kbd-compat:
> kbd-compat depends on console-tools (>= 1997.10.28-1); however:
> Package console-tools is not installed.
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> I don't understand why dpkg would start to install a package
> with unmet dependencies and then abort at configuration time.
Packages can exist in an unpacked state with unmet dependencies. A dependency
only needs to be resolved before a package is configured. It has always been
this way.
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