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

Jeff Breidenbach jeff@jab.org, 312014@bugs.debian.org
Sun Jun 5 07:24:01 2005


Look at the package "java-package"

On 6/5/05, Mohammed Sameer <uniball@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 03:03:14PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrot=
e:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > * Mohammed Sameer (uniball@gmx.net) [050604 23:08]:
> > > Package: fop
> > > Severity: grave
> > >
> > >
> > >  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.
> > >
> > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely th=
at
> > > 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andi
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> I didn't know this, Sorry it's my fault!
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> Now I'm wondering how can one install such packages ?
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