Bug#40989: apt-get refuses to install a package dependent on a held one
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.11
Severity: normal
I keep libmime-base-64 on hold, because the new version depends on
perl-5.005, which installation I want to delay. smb2www in turn depends on
libmime-base-64, biut not on a specific version. Here is what I get:
# apt-get install smb2www
[...]
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
smb2www: Depends: lib-mime-base64-perl but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages
As you see, apt-get says something obscure about the fact that smb2www
depends on libmime-base-64. Yet libmime-base-64 is regularly installed:
# dpkg --list smb2www lib-mime-base64-perl
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii smb2www 980804-5 A Windows Network client that is accessible
hi libmime-base64- 2.05-1 MIME/Base64 decoding for Perl
Here are the current and the available statuses of both packages:
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Package: libmime-base64-perl
Status: hold ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
Version: 2.05-1
Replaces: libwww, libwww-perl
Depends: perl (>= 5.004.02-2), libc6
Description: MIME/Base64 decoding for Perl
Libmime-base64-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provide
simple and consistent methods for dealing with Base64 encoding.
Package: smb2www
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 140
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
Version: 980804-5
Depends: samba, libmime-base64-perl, httpd
Description: A Windows Network client that is accessible through a web browser.
With this package you will be able to browse a Windows Network using a
standard web browser. It is based upon the samba package.
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Package: libmime-base64-perl
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 44
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.11-2
Replaces: libwww, libwww-perl
Depends: perl-5.005, libc6 (>= 2.1)
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/libmime-base64-perl_2.11-2.deb
Size: 16984
MD5sum: 3261096c2d44ffbe46be800e4d00fa5d
Description: MIME/Base64 decoding for Perl
Libmime-base64-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provide
simple and consistent methods for dealing with Base64 encoding.
Package: smb2www
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 141
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 980804-6
Depends: samba (<= 2.2.0beta1-1) | smbclient, perl5, lib-mime-base64-perl, httpd
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/smb2www_980804-6.deb
Size: 71704
MD5sum: 1f0ef86614665561084fca0f5a222726
Description: A Windows Network client that is accessible through a web browser.
With this package you will be able to browse a Windows Network using a
standard web browser. It is based upon the samba package.
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-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux pot 2.2.8 #2 Tue May 18 14:37:02 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2 The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)
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