Bug#203534: marked as done (python-apt: mixed-up dependencies leading to installation problems in sarge)
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From: Tobias Wolter <towo@ydal.de>
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Subject: python-apt: mixed-up dependencies leading to installation problems in sarge
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Package: python-apt
Version: 0.5.5.1
Severity: grave
Okay, look at the following:
python-apt (0.5.5.1), in sarge, depends on the following:
* libapt-inst-libc6.3-5-1.0
* libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3
The packages providing the libapt-(inst|pkg) stuff are apt-utils and
apt, respectively.
Both of these packages are available as of version 0.5.4 in sarge.
BUT -- the package versions in sarge in question only provide:
apt-utils, 0.5.4 - libapt-inst-libc6.2-3-2-1.0=20
apt, 0.5.4 - libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2=20
Wheres the _sid_ versions, i.e. 0.5.8, provide:
apt-utils, 0.5.8 - libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3=20
apt, 0.5.8 - libapt-inst-libc6.3-5-1.0=20
Seems like the sid dependencies got mixed into sarge, for whatever
reason.
This, of course, leads to the following nicety:
$ sudo apt-get install python-apt
[...]
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-apt: Depends: libapt-inst-libc6.3-5-1.0 but it is not installable
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages
Et cetera, rendering packages like apt-listchanges unusable, too.
I'd advise someone to fix this.
-towo
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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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python-apt (and therefore apt-listchanges) are now now installable in
testing again.
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:00:55 -0500
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Resent-From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: Uwe Storbeck <uwe@ibr.ch>, 198658@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#198658: Why doesn't remove packages?
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:41:13PM +0200, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
> BTW, how can a package get into testing with such basically unmet
> dependencies? This state keeps on for months ...
>
> # apt-get install apt-listchanges
> ...
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> apt-listchanges: Depends: python (>= 2.3) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed
Actually, that state has changed over the last few months: it used to be
something else that caused apt-listchanges to be uninstallable. The
problem is that once a package is uninstallable in testing, which
apt-listchanges was due to a complicated "greatest good for the greatest
number" situation a while back, the scripts that manage testing are
completely willing to break more of its dependencies and make it worse,
so it can be quite difficult to get it back.
apt-listchanges is now installable in sarge, and whichever bugs are open
about that alone (not this one) can be closed now.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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