Bug#98468: Messed up comparison system?
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
"dselect install" produces the following error on my system:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
giram-gnome-mesa: Depends: gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.8.1-1) but 1.9.10-3 is to be
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Internal Error, problem resolver broke stuff
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.
"1.9.10-3" seems to be >= "1.9.8.1-1", so what's wrong? I have on hold
packages that are old (like libttf2 and freetype2 in oldlibs) which I want
to get rid of but not of packages that depends on them, so I have them on
hold while waiting for updated packages.
This system worked just fine in older version of APT (it could be some 0.3
or 0.4 version - I upgraded Perl (and therefore APT) just recently, after
giving up waiting for working version).
"apt-get -q -d -y -f -m -u upgrade" worked before, too... is there some new
switch that I am missing?
If I don't put giram-gnome-mesa on hold, apt-get (dselect install) tries to
remove it.
- Peter.
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