Broken Packages & Dependencies

Krzysztof Lichota krzysiek at lichota.net
Mon Aug 20 20:08:29 UTC 2007


Matt Zimmerman napisaƂ(a):
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:39:21PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
>> Since developers only can work serial on packages these things get usually
>> (from my experience) sorted out in a short days.
> 
> Note also that the archive is automatically scanned for problems like this,
> because they can be detected by analyzing the dependencies.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#head-9827dcffcca6eba8f5fd799ad13d3fa7f8116c39
> 
> This can also be caused by packages which are still building, or waiting to
> build, on some architectures, and other normal processes.

When I cannot install new package, because package manager complains to
run "apt-get -f install", then it should not be a usual situation.

And it is the first time when this is so serious - tens of packages seem
broken.

	Krzysztof Lichota

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