On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:15:44PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process
> > build-dependencies for subversion.
>
> OK, the message is essentially correct then. Each build-dependency is
> individually satisfiable, but the overall relationship is broken due to the
> dependencies of these packages. If you can think of a better way to express
> that idea in a short message, I'm open to suggestions.
E: Build dependencies for subversion are not satisfiable.
And then maybe print that blurb about how packages may need to be moved
out of incoming.
A user might interpret "broken packages" to mean that something is wrong
with his system.
> This happened with your sources (and not with, say, unstable alone) because
> you have a real (non-virtual) apache2-dev in your sources.list, but it's not
> compatible with the other apache stuff which is required.
Right.
> > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
>
> It's only this message which is completely bogus; apt-get -f install isn't
> going to fix this situation.
Okay.
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