severity 482575 normal reassign 482575 libldap2 retitle 482575 libldap2 is deprecated but not in oldlibs thanks
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Wolfgang Leister wrote: > Package: pine > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > By accident on my system pine was uninstalled by a dist-upgrade. > When trying to install pine again the following error message > occurs for "apt-get install pine": > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > pine: Depends: libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1) but it is not going to be installed > > Trying to install libldap2 results in an uninstall of a lot of other packages: > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > apt debian-archive-keyring (due to apt) > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 280 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Your report does not say it, but I bet you are not using the Debian version of pine, but the pine.deb distributed by the University of Washington. That would be like installing a package from sarge using "dpkg -i" on a lenny system and expecting it to work. It does not have to work. [ It is actually worse. It would be like installing a Red-Hat package on a Debian system and reporting it to Debian that it does not work ]. You could try adding a line like this to your sources.list deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free and then try to build pine by doing this: apt-get --only-source build-dep pine apt-get --only-source -b source pine The resulting pine.deb depends on libldap-2.4-2, not on libldap2, which seems to be obsolete in lenny. Or you could also try alpine, which is in main. In either case, as this is not a bug in pine but I see that libldap2 is not clearly tagged as deprecated I'm reassigning this bug to libldap2. Note to libldap2 maintainer: If libldap2 is really deprecated, then it should be in Section: oldlibs, so that people clearly see that a package which depends on it is not a good thing to install on a lenny system. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
