Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/apt-get
e.g. right now, locales is uninstallable on i386 because libc6 i386 is built and not uploaded yet. apt-get install locales gives: $ sudo apt-get install locales Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 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. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: locales: Depends: glibc-2.5-1 but it is not installable E: Broken packages Users follow it to the letter, and we've had no less than 5 or 6 RC bug reports because of that. Now that amd64 becomes popular, this problem is more and more visible, and should be docummented instead of that alarming error message. The bug severity is important, because that's a real PITA for every maintainer in debian that builds packages with arch:all and arch:any packages. Please consider detecting this usual case or at least expand the error message. Thanks -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org