[Hamm Install] package dependency problems

[Francois Gouget <gouget@metaintegration.net>]

	Hi,

	I downloaded Hamm last night from fp.mi.us.debian.org and I got quite 
a lot of package download problems. Packages that seem to have moved 
between the ime I selected them and the time I downloaded them.

	Anyway, I have a lot of package problems, 58 packages are in the state 
iU, i.e. installed but not configured. I could at least identify the 
following problems:

 * the first problem has to do with perl. I have the package perl-base 
installed but apache which depends on 'perl' claims that perl is not 
installed. And in fact 'perl-base' does not provide 'perl'. But it 
'Replaces: perl', 'Suggests: perl' and 'Conflicts: perl (<< 
5.004.04-2)'. I tried to find another package that would provide 'perl' 
but did not find any. To me it looks like there is a screw-up in the 
package dependencies/information.

	perl-base    5.004.04-6
	apache       1.3b6-3

 * ddd-smotif depends on 'libg++27'. Fair enough. I installed the 
package 'libg++27' (Opt oldlibs libg++27). But this package provides 
'libg++' not the one I expected. I could not find anything that ould 
povide 'libg++27'.

	Packages depending on 'libg++27'
		staroffice3      3.1-8
		rvplayer	     1:5.0-2
		ddd-dmotif	     2.2.3-2
		libg++2.8-dev    2.90.29-0.3
		ddd-smotif       2.2.3-2
		circus           0.43-1
		libg++27-altdev  2.7.2.1-14.4
		netscape4        4.0-12
	Related packages:
		libg++272-dev    2.7.2.8-0.1  provides libg++-dev
		libg++2.8        2.90.29-0.3  provides libg++
		libg++2.8-dev    2.90.29-0.3  provides libg++-dev
		libg++27         2.7.2.1-14.4 provides libg++
		libg++272-dbg    2.7.2.8-0.1  provides libg++272

 * I'm not sure apache should depend on perl. I know we have apache 
installed on a Solaris machine were there is no perl. Sometimes when 
doing a first install it feels like every other package requires some 
other package that you (I) have not yet installed (and don't really 
want to install but...). This is typically things like perl, perl 
extensions, tcl, tk...

 * These problems seem to have blocked the installation of tcl8.0, 
tk8.0 which I could 'dpkg --configure' manually without problem. Why ?

--
Francois Gouget
fgouget@mygale.org -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/



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