Bug#92569: apt can't handle an upgrade of the xemacs21* packages

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> > The following behaviour (why does want to install xemacs21-mule and
> > xemacs21-mulesupport ???) seems to be broken:
>
> This is happening because xemacs21 (which you asked to install) depends
> on xemacs21-mule:
>
> Package: xemacs21
> [...]
> Depends: xemacs21-mule (= 21.1.14-3) | xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn (= 21.1.14-3) | xemacs21-nomule (= 21.1.14-3)
>
> If you only want -nomule, specify it instead of xemacs21, not in addition to
> it.  xemacs21-nomule provides xemacs21.

Please look at what you quoted below:

> This bug should be closed.
>
> > # apt-get install xemacs21 xemacs21-bin xemacs21-nomule xemacs21-support
>...                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I tell apt explicitely to install xemacs21-nomule and this should fulfill
the dependency above. More general:

  Package: a
  Depends: x | y | z


Then an

  apt-get install a z


wants to install package "x" additionally to "a" and "z".


I do still think that this is a bug in apt.


cu
Adrian

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