severity 220858 minor thanks On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:26:31AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.14 > Severity: normal > > redwald:~# apt-get build-dep subversion > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies > for subversion. > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > redwald:~# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > I presume the problem is that subversion's build-dependencies are > unsatisfiable, but that's not what apt is telling me; instead, it's telling me > my system is busted, which by its own subsequent testimony is not the case.
The actual error message could probably be clearer, and it definitely shouldn't suggest running apt-get -f install in this case. I tried to reproduce this to find out what the actual problem was, but I get a much more helpful message: E: Build-Depends dependency for subversion cannot be satisfied because no available versions of package apache2-dev can satisfy version requirements Which is precisely accurate because apache2-dev is a virtual package. Do you have an installed package providing apache2-dev? Try -o Debug::BuildDeps=true to find out what's going on. -- - mdz
