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Bug#220858: apt: apt-get build-dep can issue spurious complaints about brok: msg#00101

Subject: Bug#220858: apt: apt-get build-dep can issue spurious complaints about broken installation
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:53:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 04:43:46PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The actual error message could probably be clearer, and it definitely
> > shouldn't suggest running apt-get -f install in this case.  I tried to
> > reproduce this to find out what the actual problem was, but I get a much
> > more helpful message:
> > 
> > E: Build-Depends dependency for subversion cannot be satisfied because no 
> > available versions of package apache2-dev can satisfy version requirements
> 
> I've never seen such a helpful error message from apt-get.

Are you sure you're using 0.5.14?  The behaviour in earlier versions was
closer to what your report showed.

> > Which is precisely accurate because apache2-dev is a virtual package.
> > Do you have an installed package providing apache2-dev?  Try
> > -o Debug::BuildDeps=true to find out what's going on.
> 
> I can't reproduce it anymore, since the maintainer changed the
> Build-Deps in subversion 0.33.0-1.

What version were the build-deps from before?  Maybe snapshot.debian.net
could help.

-- 
 - mdz


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