[Pkg-octave-devel] Autobuilders weird failures

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Mar 29 03:39:02 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:20:52PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I do not know whether this is the right place for complaining, but:
> 
> I am getting to desperation mode with the autobuilders.  The plplot package
> FTBFS on four architectures (i386 [1], mips [2], mipsel [3], and s390 [4]),
> all with the same error message:

>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>       octave3.0-headers: Depends: octave3.0 (= 1:3.0.0-9) but it is not going to be installed

> However, octave3.0 1:3.0.0-9 exists on all four arches [5].

"it is not going to be installed" != "it doesn't exist".  This error message
means that the dependencies of your dependency are not satisfiable.

Can be trivially demonstrated on i386:

$ sudo apt-get install octave3.0-headers octave3.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  octave3.0: Depends: libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 but it is not installable or
                      libhdf5-1.6.5-0 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
$

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