Fabian, thanks for clearing-up the problem - actually very helpful! > You didn't just write that to Reinhard and still expect anyone to help > you get your screwed-up package dependencies right, he?
Maybe... > Let me give you a similar advice: You shouldn't fuck up your package > dependency chain by installing unofficial packages from third-party > repositories if you don't know what you are doing! Ha! Good advice. >> Get: 3 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/main vlc i386 1:1.1.13-0.0 >> [1,392 kB] > Does this look like a Debian mirror to you? Actually, yes it does. Remember - I don't know any better. It is mostly the word "debian" in the domain name that throws me off the path. And then, after installing 2.0.0-1, "dpkg -p vlc" shows: Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> Attempting to "divine" the underlying distinction between "Debian Multimedia" and "debian-multimedia", I came-up none the wiser. Nor does the package description seem to offer any deeper insight. And, you know, at http://www.debian.org/trademark, ... the Debian trademark is a registed United States trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. and, at http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-1998/msg00006.html To be fair to all businesses, we insist that no business use the name "Debian" in the name of the business, or a domain name of the business. So, yeah, using the name "debian", instead of "Debian" in the domain name probably threw me off a bit too. > The 1:1.1.3-0.0 version on d-m.o has an epoch "1:" added to its > version number that makes it always appear higher than the 2.0.0-1 one > from the official Debian repository. That's the solution, no personal > insult required. Aha! Hmm - but that still leaves me - naively, perhaps - expecting that the "epoch 1:" should not do that, or rather, that the package managers - synaptic, aptitude, and apt-get - should not do that. Of course, whoever it is who actually created "1:1.1.13-0.0" isn't helping things any - still not providing a "version 2" package, some guy with a "debian.org" email address, who, as you say, is not actually the maintainer of the official "debian" package - not to be confused with the "Debian Multimedia Maintainers" who _are_ the official maintainers, but who don't have anything to do with those other guys at "debian-multimedia". I find the package documentation to be still a bit confusing... James _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
