Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.7 Severity: normal Hi,
I tried to install dstat on a relatively recent sid system: # apt-get -u install dstat [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: dstat 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 323 not upgraded. Need to get 50.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 351 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid/main dstat all 0.7.2-4 [50.5 kB] Fetched 50.5 kB in 6s (8,254 B/s) Selecting previously unselected package dstat. (Reading database ... 38323 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dstat (from .../archives/dstat_0.7.2-4_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dstat: dstat depends on python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~). dpkg: error processing dstat (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dstat E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Huh? apt-get should've taken care of that, surely? Let's try to force it: # apt-get -f install [...] 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 332 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dstat: dstat depends on python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~). dpkg: error processing package dstat (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dstat E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Installing python manually: # apt-get -u install python [...] The following extra packages will be installed: libpython-stdlib python-minimal Suggested packages: python-doc python-tk The following packages will be upgraded: libpython-stdlib python python-minimal 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 329 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/204 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 38404 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python_2.7.5-5_amd64.deb ... Unpacking python (2.7.5-5) over (2.7.5-3) ... Preparing to unpack .../python-minimal_2.7.5-5_amd64.deb ... Unpacking python-minimal (2.7.5-5) over (2.7.5-3) ... Preparing to unpack .../libpython-stdlib_2.7.5-5_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libpython-stdlib:amd64 (2.7.5-5) over (2.7.5-3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.5-2) ... Setting up python-minimal (2.7.5-5) ... Setting up libpython-stdlib:amd64 (2.7.5-5) ... Setting up python (2.7.5-5) ... Setting up dstat (0.7.2-4) ... So it turns out the python package was already 2.7.5-3, but for some reason that didn't satisfy a dependency on python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~) as far as dpkg was concerned, but did satisfy it as far as apt-get was concerned. To me it looks like apt-get was right and dpkg was wrong. Andras -- Can February March? No, but April May... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
