reopen 46308 thanks On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 06:18:04PM -0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > wmsound: Depends: wmaker (>= 0.20.2-2) but it is not installed > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > > > Yeah, right. But, dpkg explained it: > > It actually is supposed to say 'but it is not going to be installed' > > The problem is that APT does not have the same view of the world as dpkg > does, when you install wmsound it really does install it but after it's > done that it finds out that things it needs are missing, so you get the > backwards message. > > If you do 'apt-get install wmaker wmsound' then you get different message > that is closer to what dpkg shows. The problem is quite literally that > wmsound cannot find a version of wmaker that it is compatble which is > exactly what the error message says.
It's the other way around - wmaker won't accept that version of wmsound, (it Conflicts: with it). APT's message *is* incorrect, because wmaker version 0.60.0-4 (which is >= 0.20.2-2) *is* installed. You could understand the message the right way, but only after like five minutes of pondering the logical possibilities ;) If the problem with APT's "viewpoint" is indeed impossible to be solved, please at least fix the message to say something like: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies or cause conflicts: wmsound: Depends: wmaker (>= 0.20.2-2) but it is not going to be installed That is avoiding the lie - it is still ambigous, but at least gives a clearer clue on what could be going on. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
