Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 Severity: normal
A note to understand the example below: libgnome-dev depends on libdb3-dev libdb3-dev conflicts with libdb2-dev The package gaby has the following build dependencies: Package: gaby ... Build-Depends: libgnome-dev, libdb2-dev, python-dev, cygnus-stylesheets, gettext, python-gtk, debhelper # apt-get build-dep gnome-gv Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libdb3-dev libgnome-dev libgnorba-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libdb2-dev 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 190kB of archives. After unpacking 2616kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] That means apt wants to remove libgnome-dev although it's listed in the build dependencies. Instead, it should quit with an error message. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de 2.4.4-ac6 #1 Wed May 9 10:26:14 CEST 2001 i586 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.3-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010506 The GNU stdc++ library
