apt-get bug?

["Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net>]

Hi,

Here is Ben Collins, the maintainer of slapd wrote to me:

To be honest, this looks like an apt bug to me. Nothing in slapd's dep
chain requires gnome.

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In response to:

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Hi,

I am new to linux, just installed debian yesterday, running "unstable".
I want to install slapd and get:

lab:/home/joe# apt-get install slapd
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:
  gnome-core: Depends: gnome-bin (>= 1.2.8-1) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

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lab:/home/joe# apt-get install gnome-core
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, gnome-core is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 66  not upgraded.

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lab:/home/joe# apt-get install gnome-bin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, gnome-bin is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 66  not upgraded.

Any idea what is going on?  Do I have a hosed system?  I'm curious
why slapd even cares about gnome.

thanks,
-joe