Bug#465241: bibtex2html has been installed with an unmet dependency
Package: bibtex2html
Version: 1.90-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Note: I'm not sure whether this is a bug in bibtex2html 1.90-2 or in
dpkg.
I've upgraded bibtex2htmlfrom 1.90-1 to 1.90-2 with aptitude and got
the following error:
Errors were encountered while processing:
bibtex2html
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bibtex2html:
bibtex2html depends on ocaml-base-nox-3.10.1; however:
Package ocaml-base-nox-3.10.1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing bibtex2html (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
bibtex2html
It seems that the system (dpkg?) has let bibtex2html to be upgraded
to 1.90-2 though bibtex2html now depends on ocaml-base-nox-3.10.1 and
ocaml-base-nox-3.10.1 isn't installed (and isn't even available).
Now apt-get complains that the dependencies are incorrect.
Fortunately I still had the bibtex2html 1.90-1 Debian package in the
archives, and I could reinstall it with:
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/bibtex2html_1.90-1_all.deb
But there's definitely something broken in bibtex2html 1.90-2 or dpkg.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.13-ws-intel64-p4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bibtex2html depends on:
pn ocaml-base-nox-3.10.1 <none> (no description available)
ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii texlive-base 2007-13 TeX Live: Essential programs and f
bibtex2html recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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