On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:24:56PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the list archives, I know this has been discussed before.
>
> I am trying to backport some packages from unstable to woody. For some
> of them, I get stuck into something like a "dependencies loop",
> specially debhelper.
>
> The source for debhelper 4.1.52 can be compiled, but not installed, as
> it depends on debconf-utils at least 1.1.1. Version 1.2.35 is available,
> but for building, it depends on debhelper at least 4.1.27, that
> obviously is not available (woody version is 4.0.2).
I suffered from the same (or at least similar problem) while trying to
backport debhelper to woody:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/msg00883.html
where Colin Watson helped me out with this:
... I think you can get around it by the old technique of installing
a half-built version of one package in order to build the other so
that you can build the full version of the first. There's an example
of this in groff to help bootstrappers break the cycle with XFree86.
I got around it by forcing it; I forcibly installed one package (dpkg
screamed because of the dependencies, but since it was in a chroot'ed
environment I insisted) which allowed me to build the other.
Unfortunately I cannot remember whether it was debhelper or debconf I
did this with first.
HTH
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Karl E. Jørgensen
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