Re: Unusable Update for Stable

[scholler@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Scholler)]

hi,

On Thu Feb 13, 2003 at 08:30:27 +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> Does anybody know why stable/updates/main on http://security.debian.org
> has a package that depends on a libc that is not available for Stable?

yes, because the package you are trying to install is neither in stable
nor in its updates/security fixes.  see below.

> # apt-cache policy libapache-mod-ssl
> libapache-mod-ssl:
>   Installed: 2.8.9-2.1
>   Candidate: 2.8.9-2.3
>   Version Table:
>      2.8.9-2.3 0
>         500 http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de unstable/non-US/main Packages
---------------------------------------->^^^^^^^^
>      2.8.9-2.2 0
>         500 http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de testing/non-US/main Packages
>  *** 2.8.9-2.1 0
>         200 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      2.8.7-1 0
>         500 http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de stable/non-US/main Packages

apt is trying to install the libapache-mod-ssl from unstable.  as you can
see the candidate version is the same as in unstable.

regards,

uLI