On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:47:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:28:48AM +0100, Herv� Eychenne wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote: > > > Architecture: all packages such as locales are only built on one > > > architecture, but used by all architectures regardless of whether the > > > rest of the source package has been built for them. This saves all the > > > build daemons having to build identical packages. > > It seems I'm facing this same problem again: > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > # apt-get install locales > [...] > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-10 but it is not installable > > E: Broken packages > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I understand the reasons why it occurs, but something should _really_ > > be done to avoid that many people like me should face this problem > > again. Just think about the cumulated time all these people will > > lose... > Why are you mailing me? I don't maintain glibc. Sorry, I mailed that to you because I'm not a debian developper myself, and you were talking about this. (glibc maintainers now Cc'ed) > Anyway, just wait a bit and it'll be fine, or download the older version > of locales by hand. It's not difficult. While waiting or downgrading is an option, I simply insist on the fact that this problem shouldn't issue _at all_, and that it should be fixed by preventing this from happening. Thanks, Herv� -- _ (�= Herv� Eychenne //) Homepage: http://www.eychenne.org/ v_/_ WallFire project: http://www.wallfire.org/
