Bug#464907: seems not to check for broken versioned dependencies when upgrading

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Bug#464907: seems not to check for broken versioned dependencies when upgrading

by Michal Suchanek-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.25
Severity: normal


I also get this problem when downgrading.

X depends on libpixman >> 0.15 but dpkg happily installs 0.14 and breaks
X.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (290, 'stable-i386'), (280, 'testing-i386'), (270, 'unstable-i386'), (1, 'experimental-i386'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils                     6.10-6     The GNU core utilities
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt                           0.7.23.1   Advanced front-end for dpkg

-- no debconf information




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