On 19/11/17 18:03, Daniel Schepler wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 1.6~alpha5 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] > Affects: libgtk-3-dev > > Recently, in pbuilder builds on my machine, apt has been having > trouble figuring out how to install libgtk-3-dev. Debugging within a > "pbuilder login" session shows: > > root@frobozz:/# apt install libgtk-3-dev > 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: > libgtk-3-dev : Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (= 3.22.26-1) but it is not > going to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > The strange thing is, if I try to dig into what the problem is with > "apt install libgtk-3-dev gir1.2-gtk-3.0", then the installation is > successful. So the package is actually installable, it's just that > for some reason apt is having difficulties figuring out the > installation set.
What architecture are you using? Are you running kfreebsd or hurd by any chance? Using reportbug would give us that information fwiw... Emilio
