Bug#452886: kdegraphics: Version-restricted dependencies cause removal of 150+ packages
Package: kdegraphics
Version: 4:3.5.5-3etch2
Severity: normal
Running aptitude in Etch on SPARC, the keystrokes "uUgg", which usually
just install security updates, now cause removal of over 150 packages
including all of KDE. This is because kde depends on kdegraphics, and
security.debian.org has a recent Etch update of kdegraphics which depends
on (among others) version 4:3.5.5-3etch2 of kamera, which does not exist.
I think this is a near-duplicate of #325254, where Martin Schulze wrote:
> Why the )*(#%$ does a KDE package depend on the exact Debian version
> of another KDE package? That should not be the case in the first place.
The next comment on #325254 seems to indicate that the version-restricted
dependencies were to be removed in the transition to KDE 3.4, but we are
well past that transition, and the version-restricted dependencies are
causing a problem again.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kdegraphics depends on:
ii kamera 4:3.5.5-3etch1 digital camera io_slave for Konque
ii kcoloredit 4:3.5.5-3etch1 a color palette editor and color p
ii kdegraphics-kfile-plugins 4:3.5.5-3etch1 KDE metainfo plugins for graphic f
ii kdvi 4:3.5.5-3etch1 dvi viewer for KDE
ii kfax 4:3.5.5-3etch1 G3/G4 fax viewer for KDE
ii kfaxview 4:3.5.5-3etch1 G3/G4 fax viewer for KDE using kvi
ii kgamma 4:3.5.5-3etch1 gamma correction module for the KD
ii kghostview 4:3.5.5-3etch1 PostScript viewer for KDE
ii kiconedit 4:3.5.5-3etch1 an icon editor for KDE
ii kmrml 4:3.5.5-3etch1 a Konqueror plugin for searching p
ii kolourpaint 4:3.5.5-3etch1 a simple paint program for KDE
ii kooka 4:3.5.5-3etch1 scanner program for KDE
ii kpdf 4:3.5.5-3etch1 PDF viewer for KDE
ii kpovmodeler 4:3.5.5-3etch1 a graphical editor for povray scen
ii kruler 4:3.5.5-3etch1 a screen ruler and color measureme
ii ksnapshot 4:3.5.5-3etch1 screenshot utility for KDE
ii ksvg 4:3.5.5-3etch1 SVG viewer for KDE
ii kuickshow 4:3.5.5-3etch1 KDE image/slideshow viewer
ii kview 4:3.5.5-3etch1 simple image viewer/converter for
ii kviewshell 4:3.5.5-3etch1 generic framework for viewer appli
ii libkscan1 4:3.5.5-3etch1 scanner library for KDE
kdegraphics recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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