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Bug#220858: apt: apt-get build-dep can issue spurious complaints about broken installation



tag 220858 + unreproducible
thanks

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 04:43:46PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> The actual error message could probably be clearer, and it definitely
> shouldn't suggest running apt-get -f install in this case.  I tried to
> reproduce this to find out what the actual problem was, but I get a much
> more helpful message:
> 
> E: Build-Depends dependency for subversion cannot be satisfied because no available versions of package apache2-dev can satisfy version requirements

I've never seen such a helpful error message from apt-get.

> Which is precisely accurate because apache2-dev is a virtual package.
> Do you have an installed package providing apache2-dev?  Try
> -o Debug::BuildDeps=true to find out what's going on.

I can't reproduce it anymore, since the maintainer changed the
Build-Deps in subversion 0.33.0-1.

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