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Re: [marc@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se: Bug#487625: xpdf: Depends: xpdf-reader (= 3.01-9.1+etch5) but it is not going to be installed]



On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 06:34:01PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Is this fixed by your latest xpdf upload for etch?
[...]
> # apt-get install xpdf
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... 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:
>   xpdf: Depends: xpdf-reader (= 3.01-9.1+etch5) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
> # dpkg -l | grep xpdf
> ii  xpdf-common                       3.01-9.1+etch4
> # Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- common files
> ii  xpdf-reader                       3.01-9.1+etch4
> # Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- viewer for X11
> ii  xpdf-utils                        3.01-9.1+etch4
> # Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- utilities
> 
> The amd64 box I own didn't have that problem, but on the i686, it persists
> for some days now.

Hm, nice.  xpdf is arch:all but depends on xpdf-reader strictly.  Thus
it is not binNMU-safe.  But that's not the issue: the i386 build is not
available yet (the only one missing apart of alpha), it's just `built'
since 3d.

So this will fix itself within the next few days.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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