Bug#308066: trying to install libx11-dev leads to major package dependency problems

[Peter Koellner <peter@asgalon.net>]

Package: libx11-dev
Version: catastrophic dependency problem
Severity: important



 I was trying to install the GNOME 2.10 garnome suite when I discovered
 that I did not yet have the X development libraries installed on my
 system. So I started dselect to get them. When I select libx11-dev,
 dselect gives me a report of dependency problems that breaks the whole
 desktop configuration, by wanting to deinstall libxkbui1, libxkbfile1,
 xbase-cient, libgksuui1.0, xprint-common, wine, gdm, xprint,
 wine-utils, python-2.3-common, and several more.
 
 This is serious, since it renders my laptop useless for all X development
 purposes.

 dselect screen copy of dependency problems:
 
  _* Opt libdevel xlibs-static X Window System client library development files
  _* Opt libdevel libxv-dev    X Window System video extension library developme
  ** Opt libdevel libx11-dev   X Window System protocol client library developme
 **- Opt libs     libxkbui1
 **- Opt libs     libxkbfile1
  _* Opt libdevel libxi-dev    X Window System Input extension library developme
 **- Opt x11      xbase-client miscellaneous X clients
 **- Opt libs     libgksuui1.0 a graphical fronted to su library
 **- Opt x11      xprint-commo Xprint - the X11 print system (configuration file
 **- Opt libs     libgksu1.2-0 library providing su and sudo functionality
 **- Opt otherosf wine         Windows Emulator (Binary Emulator)
 **- Opt gnome    gdm          GNOME Display Manager
 **- Opt admin    gksu         graphical frontend to su
 **- Opt x11      xprint       Xprint - the X11 print system (binary)
 **- Opt otherosf wine-utils   Windows Emulator (Utilities)
 **- Opt gnome    gdm-themes   Themes for the GNOME Display Manager
 **- Opt gnome    gnome-sudo   dumb package to provide smooth upgrade to gksu
 **- Opt libs     python2.3-co alternative debconf configuration interface: core
 **- Opt x11	  xprt-xprinto Xprint - the X11 print system (dummy)
 **- Opt python   python-confi alternative debconf configuration interface: core
 
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.7
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libx11-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.2.ds1-21        GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext-dev          4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
pn  libxi-dev                                Not found.
ii  x-dev                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X protocol development files
pn  xlibs-static-dev                         Not found.