Re: Installing svk on lenny?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 06:42:26AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> --- On Sun, 7/6/08, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
> > Subject: Re: Installing svk on lenny?
> > To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 6:17 AM
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:16:49PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer
> > Nussbaum wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Im trying to install svk on a lenny system, but its
> > not available in the
> > > lenny sources. A search of the package archives
> > suggests that you can
> > > get it in Etch or unstable, but "apt-get install
> > svk / stable" or
> > > "/ unstable" just says that svk is not
> > available, but is referred by
> > > another package.
> > 
> > There should be one comig to sid at your mirror soon. 
> > 
> > Full story is:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/svk.html
> > 
> > > Is there a version of it i can use, or a reason why
> > its not longer available?
> > 
> > When RC bug exists long time on a pacakage, package is
> > removed from
> > testing and unstable.
> > 
> > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=svk&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> > 
> > It is just uploaded to unstable. Try again! 
> > 
> > Your problem of not installing stable version is unknown to
> > me.  Do you
> > have apt-line for stable in /etc/apt/sources.list?
> 
> Yes i do.
> 
> If i try to install from stable or unstable, i get the following message:
> 
> ---
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   svk: Depends: liblocale-maketext-simple-perl (> 0.16)
> E: Broken packages

For such case, you should have used target release thingy.  -t option.
Then pin-priority of target is set to 990 and related library can be
picked.
> if i try to install liblocale-maketext-simple-perl, it tries to uninstall
> perl and everything based on it, and that would nuke my system so i dont
> want to do it! Surely there's a way to get svk working?
>

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Osamu