Re: [Synaptic-devel] Trouble with dependencies?

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:05:02AM +0100, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
 
> I just noticed something which may be a bug in synaptic. Somehow,  
> dependencies seem not to be resolved correctly. I just noticed that  
> with the cron-package.
> 
> Synaptic shows there's an update from 3.0pl1-77 to  3.0pl1-82  
> available. Among the dependencies for this package is this:
> 
> Recommends: exim | postfix | mail-transport-agent
> 
> "exim | postfix | mail-transport-agent" are also shown by synaptic     
> in the Dependencies/Suggestions and Recommendations view.
> 
> I have postfix installed on my box. When I mark the package for update,  
> synaptic wants do remove postfix and install exim instead. Unchecking  
> the "Consider recommended packages as dependencies" box in the  
> preferences dialogue takes care of that; nevertheless, synaptic should  
> be able to recognize one of the alternatives already is installed.

Thanks for leting me know. This is clearly a bug. If you use debian,
may I ask you to file a debian bug against synaptic? This way, I will
not forget about it. I can't take care of it right now, but I will
definitly for one of the next versions. 

Just copy-n-paste your mail for the bugreport, it has all needed
information :)

thanks,
 Michael
 

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