On 2012-09-14 08:54:06 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 13 September 2012 23:17, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > > so that docbook-mathml would depend on a package that has been > > uninstalled. However if I do this, the system doesn't notice > > this broken dependency, as if docbook-mathml were not installed > > at all (so that I don't need an "apt-get -f install"). > > Interesting. Perhaps apt is not aware of the arch-less package now. Compare: > > $ apt-cache policy docbook-mathml
docbook-mathml: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.1CR1-2 Version table: 1.1CR1-2 0 900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing/main powerpc Packages 200 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main powerpc Packages 1.0.0-2 0 900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable/main powerpc Packages > $ apt-cache policy docbook-mathml:* docbook-mathml: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.1CR1-2 Version table: 1.1CR1-2 0 900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing/main powerpc Packages 200 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main powerpc Packages 1.0.0-2 0 900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable/main powerpc Packages docbook-mathml:none: Installed: 1.0.0-2 Candidate: 1.0.0-2 Version table: *** 1.0.0-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > $ dpkg -s docbook-mathml Package: docbook-mathml Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 100 Maintainer: Mark Johnson <m...@debian.org> Version: 1.0.0-2 Depends: xml-core (>= 0.05), sgml-base (>= 1.17), docbook-xml (>= 4.1.2-4), w3-dtd-mathml Suggests: docbook-xsl Description: Extension to DocBook XML for using MathML markup [...] > $ dpkg -C The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the database, they need to be reinstalled: kernel-image-2.6.12-20050829 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.12-2005 libgdbmg1 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version) libnewt0 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with s -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org