Bug#312014: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#312014: fop missing dependencies.)

[Mohammed Sameer]

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On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 03:03:14PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
>=20
> * Mohammed Sameer (uniball@gmx.net) [050604 23:08]:
> > Package: fop
> > Severity: grave
> >=20
> >=20
> >  apt-get install  fop
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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:
>=20
> Actually, fop is part of contrib. Packages in contrib and non-free are
> allowed to depend on certain packages not part of Debian (whereas
> packages in main are not). For this reason, this is not even a bug.
>=20
>=20
> Cheers,
> Andi

I didn't know this, Sorry it's my fault!

Now I'm wondering how can one install such packages ?

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