On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Malcolm Parsons wrote: > I agree that installing guile1.3 is impossible, but I see no reason why > everything which doesn't depend on it can't be installed. > apt-get manages to ignore packages which can't be installed due to missing > dependancies, so it could also ignore this request (for dselect-upgrade, not > for install). If you disagree then close the bug.
I see what the problem is.. You status file is corrupted. It contains an entry like this: Package: guile1.3 Status: install ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: interpreters Version: 1:1.3.4-3 Which is not valid. The Version field must not be present along with not-installed. This is a condition I have never encountered, and there is no saftey check against this, in fact, I'm not totally sure such a check is even possible without breaking something else.. I'm curious how you managed to do this to yourself? Jason
