Package: tetex-extra Version: 3.0-23~bpo.1 Severity: normal under certain circumstances (I discovered that when logging into a woody pbuilder, installing tetex-extra, dist-upgrading to sarge and then to etch), aptitude refuses to update tetex-extra. It looks like this:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: libxft1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: libxft1 xlibs Keep the following packages at their current version: build-essential [10.1 (now)] dpkg-dev [1.10.28 (now)] tetex-base [2.0.2c-8 (now)] tetex-bin [2.0.2-30sarge4 (now)] tetex-extra [2.0.2c-8 (now)] tex-common [Not Installed] texinfo [4.7-2.2 (now)] Upgrade the following packages: libwww0 [5.4.0-9 (now) -> 5.4.0-11 (testing)] Score is -572 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Neither tetex-bin nor texinfo depend on libxft1 (or xfree86-common). It does depend on xlibs, however. So I press n three many times to finally get: Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: libxft1 tetex-extra xlibs Keep the following packages at their current version: build-essential [10.1 (now)] dpkg-dev [1.10.28 (now)] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: tetex-bin recommends libxml-parser-perl Score is -943 Why on earth does it want to remove tetex-extra? Depends: tetex-base (>= 3.0-11), tetex-bin (>= 2.99), ucf (>= 1.02) Recommends: latex-beamer, latex-xcolor, lmodern, pgf, preview-latex-style, texinfo Is this a bug in aptitude, or a problem in tetex-extra? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
