Re: Bug#46308: marked as done (apt: vague message about conflicts/depends)
> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 06:18:04PM -0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> It's the other way around - wmaker won't accept that version of wmsound,
> (it Conflicts: with it). APT's message *is* incorrect, because wmaker
> version 0.60.0-4 (which is >= 0.20.2-2) *is* installed. You could understand
But you are not operating on wmaker! You asked APT to install wmsound and
it told you it couldn't because it could not find a compatible version of
wmaker - plain, simple and direct. dpkg tells you that it cannot install
wmsound because wmaker prevents it, but that doesn't tell you that there
is no newer version of wmaker that can solve the problem.
APT always presents the problem viewpoint from the packages that you are
manipulating, not from the packages that will be effected by the
installation.
What it says, is that under ideal conditions with all problems resolved to
their fullest extent you cannot install the set of packages because they
need XXXX things to be satisified. In this case wmsounds needs wmaker
which for some unmentioned reason cannot be installed. The unmentioned
reason could be very complicated [a huge conflicts/depends loop, missing
versions, whatever] or very simple [a direct conflicts].
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies or cause conflicts:
> wmsound: Depends: wmaker (>= 0.20.2-2) but it is not going to be installed
>
> That is avoiding the lie - it is still ambigous, but at least gives a
> clearer clue on what could be going on.
It is not a lie, your modification makes it a lie. wmsound doesn't cause a
conflict it just happens to have one in its relationship to wmaker. The
Depends/Conflicts form a loop, you can present the problem from any point
in the loop.
Jason
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