[Bug 49220] Re: [Edgy] Broken packages while trying to install libgtk2.0-dev

[Steve White]

Thanks Sebastian,

I don't understand the relationship between the output of apt-cache
policy and the repository settings.

But I was configured to use 
    edgy-security/main.

I figured out what was missing:  you had previously recommended 
     edgy-updates/universe
which I did, but for type 'deb' only.  This made this entry unsymmetrical with the other repository entries, which had both 'deb' and 'deb-src'.  When I enabled the 'deb-src' entry, I got the corrrect libgtk versions.

This does then appear not to be a but with the library packages in
question here, so I'll drop it.  However, it appears to be a problem
that a lot of people have.  In my case, I have only altered the
repositories carefully, and only when it was recommended that I do so.
Yet it gets tangled up.

But I don't know where to report this.  I'll continue to think about it.

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[Edgy] Broken packages while trying to install libgtk2.0-dev
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49220