Bug#94056: apt-get doesn't check dependencies on non-distribution .deb packages correctly
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
I have attempted to install two ODBC-related packages (unixodbc,
godbcconfig) from unstable on my stable system. What I'm writing
here is my reconstruction of what happened.
1)I downloaded the necessary .deb files from http.us.debian.org,
along with various other required upgrades (e.g. libc6). I manually
installed using dpkg.
2)Now that these were installed, apt-get recognizes them, even though
they aren't included in the package lists for stable. So I typed
apt-get install unixodbc-bin godbcconfig
and they seemed to install normally. Oddly, unixodbc was
*uninstalled*. Unfortunately, both give this error now:
gODBCConfig: error while loading shared libraries: libodbcinst.so.1:
cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
Interestingly, libodbcinst.so.1 is supplied by unixodbc, which was
just uninstalled by apt-get precisely when I didn't want that.
Reinstalling unixodbc with apt-get install fixes the problem.
This can't be the desired behavior.
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Carl Fink carlf@dm.net
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