Package: apt Version: 0.5.24 This is on ia64 as of right now:
# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnumeric gnumeric-common 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 30.4MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n # apt-get install gnumeric gnumeric-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done gnumeric is already the newest version. Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnumeric: Depends: gnumeric-common (= 1.2.8-4) but 1.2.8-5 is to be installed E: Broken packages I have 1.2.8-4 of both gnumeric and gnumeric-common installed currently. So why does apt try to remove gnumeric rather than hold back gnumeric-common? -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
