In gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel, you wrote: > > --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.4.9 > Severity: important > > When I try to run "apt-get build-dep <src-pkg>", I get an error > message. This makes it very difficult to build almost any package > automatically. I pretty sure this didn't happen with 0.5.4. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/gnome-lokkit-0.50% dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is gnome-lokkit > dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.50-4 > dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 > dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>> 3.0.0) libnewt= > -dev libgnome-dev automake docbook-utils > dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. > dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/gnome-lokkit-0.50% sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-lokkit > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Build-Depends dependency for gnome-lokkit cannot be satisfied because no= > available versions of package automake can satisfy version requirements > > I'm running sid.
If I'm not mistaken, this is not a bug in apt. If you check you will see the only package called automake is in stable. Sid has automake1.4, automake1.5, automake1.6, automake1.7. If you don't have stable lines in your sources.list, naturally apt is not able to fetch automake for you. I don't see any virtual package called automake either. I think you should reassign this as a bug in gnome-lokkit. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control. If you want to build your program, change the line in debian/control to one of automake1.4, automake1.5, automake1.6, automake1.7. I'd go with 1.4 since this is the version on stable. Faheem.
