On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:56AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is > > availible. > > when i check the same on the website it states that version 5.8.12.1 is > > current > > > > my problem is that fetchmailconf 5.8.12-1 depends on the latter version, > > which dselect doesn't know about. > > > > the pertinent section in /etc/apt/sources.list reads: > > > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > > non-free > > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > > non-free > > > > is this wrong ? > > > > still having the same problem but: > > dselect available website packages search > says : says : > fetchmail 5.8-14-1 5.8.14-2 > fetchmailconf 5.8.14-2 5.8.14-2 > fetchmail-ssl 5.8.11-1 5.8.14-2 > > this still mucks up the dependencies for fetchmail and fetchmailconf. > there is a similar issue with xmame and xmame-x, the versions are different, > and so the dependencies cannot be fufilled. > > Any help would be much appreciated.
I don't mean to flood the list here---but I thought the subject header was not so very clear. I am wondering if this problem is linked to the archives not present problem some people are having. Bruce McIntyre.