Re: Help! update - upgrade Problem

["Patrick Beard" <patrick@scotcomms.co.uk>]

> Thanks, Paddy, that did it for me, too. Out of curiosity (as a Debian
> newbie) what had gone wrong with the package upgrade?
>
> Ollie

Glad to help.
I still class myself as a newbie to. It would appear to be a simple bug
with the way the libxft-dev was built.
If you noticed the line in the error that said;
libxft-dev: Depends: libxft2 (= 2.1.2-5) but 2.1.2-6 is installed
In testing libxft2 is at 2.1.2-6 but the libxft-dev package was built to
require 2.1.2-5 specifically. I'm not sure but I reckon it was just a
typo when the package was built and it should have actually been
'Depends: libxft2 (= > 2.1.2-5)' or perhaps '(= 2.1.2-6)' looking at the
package on debian.org I think its the latter.
Whatever it was, these things can happen, the maintainers do a great
job, but are human.

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Paddy