Am Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:55:34AM -0800 schrieb Daniel Burrows: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:25:40AM +0100, Wilfried Klaebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Currently, the new version of some to-be-upgraded package (gdk-imlib11 > > 1.9.15-6) depends on libgif4 (>= 4.1.6). The only available version of > > libgif4 (4.1.6-2) provides, replaces and conflicts with libungif4g. > > > > aptitude now marks all packages as broken that depend on libgif4: > > > > Some dependencies of gfontview are not satisfied: > > * gfontview depends on libungif4g (>= 4.1.4) (provided by libgif4 4.1.6-2) > > That's a bad message: versioned depends can't be satisfied through a > provides.
And how could this be solved, then? Maybe introduce a versioned "Provides:" that can satisfy a versioned "Depends:"? The current situation is not OK, at least. Wilfried -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
