Bug#236146: apt: requires that deps are explicitely specified to get installed

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:51:40PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:

> At last I see this problem on sid, and with a quite simple test case - but
> I've seen that on woody with many sources and a complex setup as well.
> 
> # apt-get install libosmesa4-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.

mizar:[~] sudo apt-get install libosmesa4-dev 
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libosmesa4 mesa-common-dev mesag-dev mesag3
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  x-window-system-core xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu
  xlibmesa-glu-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libosmesa4 libosmesa4-dev mesa-common-dev
  mesag-dev mesag3
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 6 to remove and 54 not upgraded.
Need to get 2219kB of archives.
After unpacking 13.5MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

> Do you need my status file or something like that ?
> 
> 
> -- Package-specific info:

What I needed was your apt.conf and preferences files, which reportbug includes
unless you explicitly decline.  Any particular reason you didn't let it send
these?

-- 
 - mdz