Bug#479115: libffi4 has broken dependencies

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:15:32PM -0400, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
> Package: libffi4
> Version: 4.3.0-3
> 
> Running Debian Sid with 2.6.25 kernel.
> /lib/libc.so.6 --> libc-2.7.so
> 
> Ran
> apt-get update
> followed by
> apt-get install libffi4
> 
> and i get the following:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libffi4: Depends: gcc-4.3-base ( = 4.3.0-3) but 4.3.0-4 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages

I first thought this was a problem too, but the changelog shows that
it intentionally stopped building the package.  I also see that there is
an libffi5 package.  So I assume there is a transition going on now, and
it's something normal you see in unstable.


Kurt