dvd+rw-tools won't update

Rudolf Petzolt petzolt at online.no
Thu Mar 15 10:27:10 UTC 2007


how can i get rid of this posts?

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lør, 10,.03.2007 kl. 11.22 +0000, skrev Andy:
> On 10/03/07, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> > Well, either a packaging error in Ubuntu, or you have 3rd-party
> > repositories enabled that cause conflicts.
> 
> Don't have any 3rd-party repositories as far as I know.
> 
> 
> It turns out the erro message from the update manager is not actually
> very acurate.
> 
> Synaptic gave me the real reason for the error:
> Depends: genisoimage  but it is not installable
> 
> I think the new version of dvd+rw tools is a backport, and they didn't
> backport a dependancy.
> 
> Why does the packaging system even allow this? packages.ubuntu.com
> knows full well that the dependancy can't be satsfied, it even told me
> so. Surely the Ubuntu server could check this when a package
> maintainer trys to upload a package?
> 
> Oh well I will file a bug report. Not entirely sure how to file for a
> particular version of the package.
> 
> Andy
> 
> -- 
> First they ignore you
> then they laugh at you
> then they fight you
> then you win.
> - Mohandas Gandhi
> 





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