Bug#284665: apt: Dependencies are mishandled

["Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:58 +1300, Srdjan wrote:
[...]
> apt-get install request-tracker3
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   apache rt3-clients
[...]
> However, I have apache-perl installed that provides httpd

Indeed. The version of request-tracker3 currently in unstable, however
doesn't depend on httpd, so that's likely to be largely irrelevant.

  request-tracker3 (3.0.12-2) unstable; urgency=low
  [...]
    * Simplified web server dependency to 'apache|apache2' since we have
      only ever supported versions of Apache with this package.

   -- Stephen Quinney <stephen@jadevine.org.uk>  Sun,  5 Dec 2004 17:35:30 +0000

Please show the results of "apt-cache policy request-tracker3" on the
machine in question. In the absence of other evidence, this doesn't look
like an apt bug at all.

Regards,

Adam