On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:44:12PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > So bjorn.haxx.se says: > > Checking cppunit > > * trying to update cppunit from 1.12.0-3 to 1.12.1-1 (candidate is 98 days old) > * Updating cppunit makes 2 non-depending packages uninstallable on i386: libsp-gxmlcpp-dev, libsp-gxmlcpp1c2a > o binary package libsp-gxmlcpp-dev is part of source package sp-gxmlcpp > + sp-gxmlcpp has the same version in unstable and testing (1.0.20040603-3) > o binary package libsp-gxmlcpp1c2a is part of source package sp-gxmlcpp (explained above) > > > This leaves me with three questions: > > 1. How can cppunit make a non-depending package uninstallable? > > 2. The gxmlcpp packages are already the same version on testing and > unstable, so if there would be a problem moving cppunit to testing, > the same problem must already exist for unstable. What is the > problem? OK, so I discovered the answer to #2: it is indeed uninstallable in sid; see below. I think gxmlcpp just needs to be rebuilt to cope with the cppunit SONAME change (cppunit lib package is now libcppunit-1.12-1). Does this need a bug filed on the package or can it be done by request to the right people? # apt-get install libsp-gxmlcpp1c2a Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libsp-gxmlcpp1c2a: Depends: libcppunit-1.12-0 but it is not installable E: Broken packages Thanks, -Steve
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