Randall Hansen wrote: > I'm trying to install the sylpheed-doc package, but it conflicts with > the slypheed package (see below). This strikes me as odd, but I don't > know enough about debs to debug it. > > I installed the doc package, copied the files, then installed Sylpheed > again (which removed the doc package, of course). So I have the docs, > but the bug remains. Should I send a bug report to the package > maintainer?
First off, please wrap your lines. It's annoying seeing messages where
each paragraph is a single line no matter how long it is. 72 characters
or so is a good limit for line length.
It appears that the version of sylpheed-doc in testing is newer than the
version of sylpheed itself. Unstable has a newer sylpheed that is
compatible with sylpheed-doc, but it hasn't been moved into testing yet.
That's what's causing your problem.
There is no need to file a bug about this; it will resolve itself when
the unstable version of sylpheed gets into testing.
For your reference, I used the following commands:
apt-cache policy sylpheed sylpheed-doc
dpkg -p sylpheed-doc
"apt-cache policy" tells you what versions of one or more packages are
available, and which branch of Debian has them.
"dpkg -p" gives you details about a particular package.
Here is what apt-cache told me:
sylpheed:
Installed: 0.8.11-1
Candidate: 0.8.11-1
Version Table:
*** 0.8.11-1 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.7.4-4 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
sylpheed-doc:
Installed: 20020827-2
Candidate: 20020827-2
Version Table:
*** 20020827-2 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
So we see here that sylpheed 0.8.11-1 is in unstable, and 0.7.4-4 is in
testing; also, sylpheed-doc 20020827-2 is in both unstable and testing.
(My apt configuration only includes testing and unstable, not stable, so
it won't tell me what's in stable.)
Here is what dpkg told me:
Package: sylpheed-doc
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 1196
Maintainer: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: all
Version: 20020827-2
Conflicts: sylpheed (<= 0.7.6-3), sylpheed-claws (<= 0.7.6claws16-1)
Filename: pool/main/s/sylpheed-doc/sylpheed-doc_20020827-2_all.deb
Size: 312352
MD5sum: 4d347a00da586d694677dc4253dd4b52
Description: Light weight e-mail client with GTK+ (documentation)
This package holds the documentation for sylpheed. It is an
html manual which describes all the features of sylpheed.
.
All translations are included in this package.
Note that it says "Conflicts: sylpheed (<= 0.7.6-3)". Testing has only
sylpheed 0.7.4-4, which is <= 0.7.6-3, and therefore conflicts.
Hope this helps.
Craig
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