Re: Bug#40989: apt-get refuses to install a package dependent on a held one

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

> 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:

This is not because it is on hold but because there isn no
lib-mime-base64-perl package in the archive, just like the message says :>

blue{root}~/mtd#apt-cache showpkg lib-mime-base64-perl
Package: lib-mime-base64-perl
Versions: 
Reverse Depends: 
  smb2www,lib-mime-base64-perl
Dependencies: 
Provides: 
Reverse Provides: 

It looks like a speeling error in smb2www's dependencies

Jason