Package: claws-mail
Version: 3.0.2-1
Severity: low
Usertags: origin-ubuntu gutsy

Hi,

Attempting to install sylpheed-claws-gtk2 in sid leads to the following:

apt-get install -s sylpheed-claws-gtk2
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  sylpheed-claws-gtk2: Depends: claws-mail (>= 3.0.2-1) but it is not going to 
be installed
                       Depends: claws-mail (< 3.0.2-1.1~) but it is not going 
to be installed
E: Broken packages

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/monodevelop/+bug/155341

Forcing the conflict with -f, or versioning the conflict in the source package 
with:

sylpheed-claws-gtk2 (<< ${source:Version})

solves the problem (of course the transitional package needs to be manually 
removed).

According to the policy manual ([1], para 7.5.2), your control file seems 
correct and should lead to claws-mail being installed instead of 
sylpheed-claws-gtk2.


Could this be a bug with apt?


Thank you,

Cesare

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.5.2



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