Bug#46308: marked as done (apt: vague message about conflicts/depends)
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:56:30 +0200
From: Josip Rodin <jrodin@public.srce.hr>
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Subject: apt: vague message about conflicts/depends
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Hi,
I have wmaker 0.60.0-4 installed, and have now tried to install slink's
version of wmsound. Here's what APT said:
# apt-get install wmsound
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
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:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
wmsound: Depends: wmaker (>= 0.20.2-2) but it is not installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
Yeah, right. But, dpkg explained it:
# dpkg -i wmsound_0.7.5-4.deb
dpkg: regarding wmsound_0.7.5-4.deb containing wmsound:
wmaker conflicts with wmsound (<= 0.9.3-1)
wmsound (version 0.7.5-4) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing wmsound_0.7.5-4.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing wmsound
Errors were encountered while processing:
wmsound_0.7.5-4.deb
Please fix APT to display correct explanation of the conflict. TIA!
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:58:20 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Bug#46308: apt: vague message about conflicts/depends
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> wmsound: Depends: wmaker (>= 0.20.2-2) but it is not installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> Yeah, right. But, dpkg explained it:
It actually is supposed to say 'but it is not going to be installed'
The problem is that APT does not have the same view of the world as dpkg
does, when you install wmsound it really does install it but after it's
done that it finds out that things it needs are missing, so you get the
backwards message.
If you do 'apt-get install wmaker wmsound' then you get different message
that is closer to what dpkg shows. The problem is quite literally that
wmsound cannot find a version of wmaker that it is compatble which is
exactly what the error message says.
Jason
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