On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:53, Karl Rubin wrote:
> I have system-ghostscript 7.05-3 installed.  When I try to install
> gv, I, get:
> 
> > The following package will be installed or updated:
> >  gv
> > The following additional package will be installed:
> >  system-ghostscript
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> 
> If I say "yes", it tries to downgrade my system-ghostscript to 6.01-1:
> 
> > dpkg - warning: downgrading system-ghostscript from 7.05-3 to 6.01-1.
> 
> This fails, telling me that I don't have ghostscript 6.01 installed
> (which is correct, I have 7.05).  The downgrading didn't happen (last
> week) when I did the same thing on another machine.
> 
I looked at the .info files for system-ghostscript-7.05-3 and
system-ghostscript6-6.01-1, and I saw something striking:

system-ghostscript6-6.01-1:
...
Provides: ghostscript, ghostscript6, ghostscript-fonts
...

system-ghostscript-7.05-3:
...
Provides: ghostscript-nox, ghostscript-fonts
...

i.e. system-ghostscript-7.05-3 doesn't provide ghostscript.

> One more piece of information: in Fink Commander, if I ask for info
> on the system-ghostscript package, it tells me
> 
> > Installed:  7.05-3
> > Unstable:   6.01-1
> > Stable:             7.05-3
> > Binary:             None
> 
This looks reversed to me:  I have 7.05-3 in unstable and 6.01-1 in
stable.  Double-check to be sure.

> This (the unstable) does not agree with the fink webpage; I don't
> know where it is getting this information.
> 
> Has something gotten corrupted in my fink installation, and how can
> I fix it?
> 
Possibly not.  

> Thanks.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
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