Bug#61512: marked as done (apt picks wrong packages trough dependencies)
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Subject: apt picks wrong packages trough dependencies
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version: 0.3.18
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This is on an up to date potato system. I needed the glut development package,
and I tried to install it, but apt apparently got confused by dependency
information and wanted to remove my currently installed mesa library in favour
for another:
lucretia:~$ sudo apt-get install glutg3-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libggi2-dev libgii0-dev mesag3+ggi mesag3+ggi-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mesag3-glide2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
glutg3-dev libggi2-dev libgii0-dev mesag3+ggi mesag3+ggi-dev
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 1125kB/1401kB of archives. After unpacking 2897kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
lucretia:~$ apt-cache show glutg3-dev
Package: glutg3-dev
Version: 3.7-5
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
Depends: libgl-dev, glutg3 (= 3.7-5), libc6-dev
Conflicts: glut-dev
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/devel/glutg3-dev_3.7-5.deb
Size: 199344
MD5sum: b5454fbbb6bd73045cf3a879b75c6a01
Description: Development library for GLUT.
Includes headers, man pages, and static library.
source: glut
installed-size: 656
lucretia:~$ dpkg -l glutg3-dev glutg3 mesag3-glide2 mesag-glide2-dev
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
+++-==========================-==========================-======================
pn glutg3-dev <none> (no description available)
ii glutg3 3.7-5 The OpenGL Utility Toolkit.
ii mesag3-glide2 3.1-15 A 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL API [libc6].
pn mesag-glide2-dev <none> (no description available)
Both mesag3+ggi and mesag3-glide2 (which I have installed) provide libgl1; both
mesag3+ggi-dev and mesag-glide2-dev provide libgl-dev, which is needed by
glutg3-dev. However, apparently it thought mesag3+ggi-dev was a better choice
than mesag-glide2-dev. What surprises me most is that it didn't choose mesag3
and mesag-dev, as these could be looked at as the 'normal' mesa packages.
Once I told apt that it should take mesag-glide2-dev it did the right thing:
lucretia:~$ sudo apt-get install mesag-glide2-dev glutg3-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libglide2-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
glutg3-dev libglide2-dev mesag-glide2-dev
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 691kB/3044kB of archives. After unpacking 5360kB will be used.
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Filip
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:58:56 +0200
From: Filip Van Raemdonck <filipvr@xs4all.nl>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
Cc: filipvr@xs4all.be, 61512-done@bugs.debian.org,
APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#61512: apt picks wrong packages trough dependencies
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References: <[🔎] 20000401130033.A23972@xs4all.be> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1000401145429.458H-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>
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In-Reply-To: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1000401145429.458H-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>; from jgg@ualberta.ca on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 02:55:22PM -0700
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 02:55:22PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>
> > Once I told apt that it should take mesag-glide2-dev it did the right thing:
>
> This is what you are supposed to do in such instances, if you think it is
> a real problem you can contact the maintainers of the respective packages
> and have them reorder their dependencies.
>
Is it normal that apt tries to remove one package and install four others, in
favour of removing none and installing three????
I hardly find that expected behaviour, unless there is some dark and evil
feature which wants to install as much on users systems as possible - and
looks more like the microsoft way to me.
This is even more bothersome because I don't *want* any packages removed - if
there's a way for apt to do what I've asked without removing stuff than that
is what it should do.
Regards,
Filip
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