Re: apt and changelogs

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:36:26 -0400, David Corbin <dcorbin@machturtle.com> wrote:
> On Monday 04 August 2003 20:54, Hugh Saunders wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote:
>>
>> or install apt-listchanges
> 
> It fails for me, with this:
> 
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   apt-listchanges: Depends: python (>= 2.2.2) but 2.1.3-3.2 is to be installed
>                    Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
> Is this a local problem of mine, or debian problem?

This is fixable. See a post called "Fun with python-apt" by Anthony
DeRobertis (asd@suespammers.org) to debian-devel which describes how
to fix the problem. Worked for me. The google group url is 

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=
UTF-8&selm=20030614054006%245aa9%40gated-at.bofh.it

(sorry, had to break up the url, silly slrn).

Alternatively, you could backport apt 0.5.8 (which seems quite stable)
to sarge. This should make the problem go away. Also worked for me.

                                                          Faheem.