On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:13:42PM +1100, Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:47 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >  (note: I ask because you seem to be using an unstable version of aptitude,
> >   yet you're installing a package from stable; furthermore, the backtrace
> >   you posted looks suspiciously like what happens if you compile aptitude
> >   yourself using the new g++ in unstable when the apt package was compiled
> >   with an old version)
> 
> I just update aptitude using aptitude...
> 
> My sources.list says:
> 
> deb ftp://debian.anu.edu.au/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib
> non-free
> 
> so it's pointing at unstable.
> 
> Note there appear to be two versions of the openoffice.org-dictionaries
> source package.  There's one in main, which provides myspell-* and
> openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us, 1:2.0.0-1 in unstable, and a different
> one in contrib (20030813-3 apparently) which provides some myspell-* and
> some openoffice.org-hyphenation-*.
> 
> So the latest unstable source package is no longer providing the
> hyphenation binary packages, but they are still being offered by
> aptitude (and the openoffice.org Suggests: them).  This contradiction
> must be triggering the error.  For some reason aptitude or apt does not
> seem to be clearing out its available package list, so binary packages
> which were once in unstable, but are longer there, yet are still in
> stable, still get listed.

  Ew.  Yeah, I don't get those packages even if I use your sources.list.

  What happens if you try to install this package using apt-get?

  Daniel

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