[Pkg-electronics-devel] geda on unstable is not installable

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0700, C. Albers wrote:
> It appears that all packages related to geda are not installable on unstable.  In particular, if I try to install geda-gschem with  "apt-get install -m geda-gschem geda-symbols" - I get the following error messages. 
> 
> ----------
> 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:
>   geda-gschem: Depends: libgeda20 (< 20061021) but it is not installable
>                Depends: libgeda20 (>= 20061020) but it is not installable
>   geda-symbols: Conflicts: geda-gschem (< 1:1.0.1.20070626) but 20061020-2 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> ----------------
> As you can see, geda-symbols conflicts with the installable geda-gschem.  It gets worse if I try to resolve the problem by install libgeda20 - which doesn't seem to exist in unstable.
> 
> Am I missing something?  Or when will this problem be fixed?

Hi Chad,

The new version 1.0.1 has recently been uploaded. Until all of the
necessary packages are compiled by our build servers, the whole suite
can be temporarily uninstallable as you discovered. 

geda-symbols is the new version already (it's not platform-specific) and
conflicts with the old version of geda-gschem, which is all that's
available on i386, and that can't be installed anyway because the old
libgeda20 is gone.

Currently our i386 build server seems to be lagging behind and has not
built the new version yet. Most of our other platforms have the whole
new version available already.

This should be fixed within a few days. Otherwise I'll build the i386
packages and upload them manually.

'unstable' has problems like this all the time with software split into
multiple packages. You are better off using 'testing' if you want
something that is reliably installable.

Hamish
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