Bug#83897: apt: Problem with dependeny check in "apt-get upgrade".
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:30:12PM +0100, FROHNER Akos wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.3.19
> Severity: normal
>
> I have installed gdm several months earlier. I have used "apt-get upgrade"
> to get to the current state (gdm 2.0-0.beta4-helix12). It uses sessreg in
> a pre-session initialisation script, which is in the xutils package. GDM
> failed to log in users, because this package was not installed, although
> it is in its dependency list.
>
> I assume "apt-get upgrade" missed to check this dependecy.
Please check your facts before making this kind of assumption. apt did no such
thing. I got this from the Packages file on
http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian/dists/unstable/main/
Package: gdm
Version: 2.0-0.beta4-helix12
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Helix Code, Inc. <debian@helixcode.com>
Pre-Depends: passwd, adduser
Depends: gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.8), libart2 (>= 1.2.0), libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1
.2), libdb2 (>= 1:2.4.14-7), libesd0 (>= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16), lib
glib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (>= 1.2.0), libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome
ui32 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libpam0g, libz1, xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4), loc
ales, libpam-modules (>= 0.72-1)
Recommends: gnome-session
Suggests: xsm
Conflicts: wdm, xdm, kdm
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/gdm_2.0-0.beta4-helix12_i386.deb
Size: 234754
MD5sum: 52d5c180552dc6644ef360db8a2b3c79
Description: GNOME Display Manager
Note that there is NO dependency on xutils. These packages appear to be
intended for potato, despite the claims on the helixcode/ximian website.
Perhaps you should try the Debian version of gdm, which is at the same upstream
version, and has the correct Debian dependency information. You might also
want to report a bug to Ximian.
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- mdz
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