On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:15:13 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: >> Is the Debian dependency system broken? > [...] > > No, but there is no way to *correctly* handle the problem with the > automatic depency mechanism. It is possible to use in some manual > kludge, but not a correct one. libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.15-5 does not break > or conflict with libnettle4. An application just using libnettle4 will > continue to work no matter whether gnutls is rebuilt against libnettle6. > > It is just that an application may not link at the same time against > libnettle4 and libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.15-5. Neither Debian nor afaik any > other major distribution supports this kind of complexity in its > dependency system (conditional dependencies).
You can, as hinted in the bug report, Breaks all packages depending on libnettle4 and libgnutls-deb0-28 (<< the version at which they switch to libnettle6). Simply Breaking libnettle4 is more restrictive, but it will avoid the segfaults. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mln7e0$ft$1...@ger.gmane.org
