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Re: xlibs breaking dependencies



Hi Michel

Thanks a lot for your answer!!

Am Freitag, 25.07.03, um 23:39 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel Dänzer:

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:50, Andreas Wüst wrote:

I wanted to install some X11 related packages from sid, but they all
have broken dependencies ["( ... ) but it is not going to be
installed"]. So far, so good. When following those dependencies, it
ultimately leads to xlibs, where it reads:

  	xlibs (> 4.2.0) but 4.1.0-16 is to be installed

Huh, I mean, what should that tell me?? If doing an apt-cache policy
xlibs, there is a 4.2.1-9 install candidate, and when checking
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/ there is
obviously a binary available too. Furthermore, apt-get -u -t unstable
install xlibs doesn't mention any problems.

What is the problem? I am seeing this behaviour an all of my boxen, so
it does not seem to be triggered by strange package combinations et al.

Hard to tell without seeing exactly what you're doing and the full
output.

Hmm, well, basically I wanted to do

# apt-get -u -t unstable install gnome-session

on one of my boxen (which is running woody ATM). This gets me a list of broken dependencies, and apt-get quits. Following those deps, I end up everywhere on said xlibs dependency (which, to be honest, I don't understand, why does it want to install 4.1.0-16 when it wants a version greater then 4.2.0 and such a version [4.2.1-9] is even available?). And of course, I've got unstable in my /etc/apt/sources.list.. ;)

What more do you think should I post? I don't think it's really sensible to post *all* of those broken deps, since they ultimately lead to xlibs anyway?

--
Best wishes, and thanks again,
Andi


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