Bug#556869: apt-get: unable to install a package

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.23.1

Hi,

Given the following circumstances, apt fails to find a solution:

8<--------------------------------->8
Package: foo
Depends: bar

Package: bar
Provides: foo
Conflicts: foo
Replaces: foo

# apt-get install foo
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  foo: Depends: bar but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
8<--------------------------------->8

The obvious solution here is to simply install bar, and not foo.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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