On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:53:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 04:43:46PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > 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 > > I've never seen such a helpful error message from apt-get.
Are you sure you're using 0.5.14? The behaviour in earlier versions was closer to what your report showed. > > 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. > > I can't reproduce it anymore, since the maintainer changed the > Build-Deps in subversion 0.33.0-1. What version were the build-deps from before? Maybe snapshot.debian.net could help. -- - mdz
