comerr-dev: cannot install while libcomerr2 1.35-8 is installed

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #301436 http://bugs.debian.org/301436

Message-Id: <20050325214748.667AE3A9A4@biophypfr>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:47:48 +0100
From: Filippo Rusconi <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: comerr-dev: cannot install while libcomerr2 1.35-8 is installed

Package: comerr-dev
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Trying to apt-get install the comerr-dev package, the following error
is returned:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  comerr-dev: Depends: libcomerr2 (= 1.35-6) but 1.35-8 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Filippo Rusconi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-fr8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:52:58 -0800
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Filippo Rusconi <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#301436: comerr-dev: cannot install while libcomerr2 1.35-8 is installed

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:47:48PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> Package: comerr-dev
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> Trying to apt-get install the comerr-dev package, the following error
> is returned:

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> comerr-dev: Depends: libcomerr2 (=3D 1.35-6) but 1.35-8 is to be instal=
led
> E: Broken packages

You've installed libcomerr2 from (an old version of) unstable; you will need
to either downgrade to the version of libcomerr2 in testing if you want to
install the testing version of comerr-dev, or upgrade to the version of
libcomerr2 in unstable if you want to install the unstable version of
comerr-dev. Either way, this is not a bug.

--=20
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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User error

Here is my aptitude stdout:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  comerr-dev: Depends: libcomerr2 (= 1.35-8ubuntu2) but 1.37-1 is installed.

My question is: comerr-dev shouldn't depends on libcomerr2 >= 1.35-8ubuntu2 ?

Thanks...
Estêvão Samuel Procópio

The dependency is correct; the versions of comerr-dev and libcomerr2 must match
exactly.

The error you are seeing is an indication that you are mixing packages from
Debian unstable and Ubuntu hoary, and this is neither recommended nor supported
by either Debian or Ubuntu (documented in the Ubuntu FAQ).