Re: can't install plplot9 some packages in testing but not unstable
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:34:25AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:07:21AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I just tried to install plplot9 but the installation fails saying that
> > it can't install libqhull4. Looking for it in the archives shows that
> > it exists in testing but not in unstable?
> >
> > How come there are packages with versions in testing and not in
> > unstable, or is this a bug?
>
> They've been removed from unstable but not yet removed from testing,
> because other packages in testing still depend on them. This is a
> feature, not a bug: it protects testing from breakage when packages are
> removed.
>
> The fact that libplplot9 still depends on libqhull4 rather than
> libqhull5 is a bug, though, namely bug #237929.
>
Its been finally fixed, thanks, didn't notice the libqhull5 for some
reason, I usually catch these dependency thingys.
I should have search for qhull and not qhull4.
> Cheers,
>
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> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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