retitle 220858 Incorrectly suggests "apt-get -f install" when build-deps are broken thanks
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:44:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:04:13AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > What does -o Debug::BuildDeps=true say? > > redwald:~# apt-get -o Debug::BuildDeps=true build-dep subversion > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Looking for debhelper... > Is installed > Looking for libneon24-dev... > Is installed > Looking for apache2-dev... > Checking provider apache2-threaded-dev > Trying to install apache2-dev > Looking for libapr0-dev... > Is installed > Looking for libdb4.1-dev... > Is installed > Looking for libtool... > Is installed > Looking for libexpat1-dev... > Is installed > Looking for zlib1g-dev... > Is installed > Looking for bison... > Checking provider bison++ > Is installed > Looking for patch... > Is installed > Looking for python... > Is installed > Looking for time... > Is installed > Looking for python2.3-dev... > Is installed > Looking for autotools-dev... > Is installed > Looking for autoconf... > Is installed > Looking for swig1.3... > Is installed > Looking for libsasl2-dev... > Is installed > Looking for xsltproc... > Is installed > Looking for docbook-xsl-stylesheets... > Trying to install docbook-xsl-stylesheets > Looking for build-essential... > Is installed > E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies > for subversion. OK, the message is essentially correct then. Each build-dependency is individually satisfiable, but the overall relationship is broken due to the dependencies of these packages. If you can think of a better way to express that idea in a short message, I'm open to suggestions. This happened with your sources (and not with, say, unstable alone) because you have a real (non-virtual) apache2-dev in your sources.list, but it's not compatible with the other apache stuff which is required. > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. It's only this message which is completely bogus; apt-get -f install isn't going to fix this situation. -- - mdz
