Bug in apt-get ? (Was Re: New Debian ROOT (5.09/01) packages for i386 unstable)
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:19:57AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote :
> > # apt-get build-dep root
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Package libqt3-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > is only available from another source
> > However the following packages replace it:
> > qt3-qtconfig qt3-linguist qt3-dev-tools-embedded qt3-dev-tools-compat
> > qt3-dev-tools qt3-designer qt3-assistant qt3-apps-dev libqt3-mt-dev
> > libqt3-headers libqt3-compat-headers
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > E: Package libqt3-dev has no installation candidate
>
> In my opinion this is a bug in apt-get, since the debian/control file
> in the root source package includes "libqt3-dev | libqt3-mt-dev" in
> the Build-Depends line. Once libqt3-mt-dev is installed, apt-get
> should not get hung up on the fact that libqt3-dev doesn't exist.
Just to say that I confirm : I have also libqt3-mt-dev installed, and
apt-get source still complains about missing dependancies.
--
Charles
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