On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 07:30:45PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ...note that 2001 was before the release of woody. This package is so > > old that it shouldn't still be on anyone's system and Debian doesn't > > actually need to support it. (The submitter may want to check for > > "Obsolete and locally created packages" in aptitude once in a while.) > > I'm guessing libffi4-dev maintainers will just close this bug. > > This is incorrect reasoning. > > Old packages do not get automatically deleted, and there's no reason > to think this one would have been. > > Thomas I suppose from the version numbering the intent may have been to allow multiple versions to coexist. Unfortunately, it seems the latest one and the very early one can't coexist, so I guess they need to conflict.
I don't know the dependency mechanism well enough to know whether a simple conflict entry is sufficient to resolve the problem. Ross P.S. Since libffi is no longer on my system, I can't check what category is was classified under. I'm using apt-get rather than aptitude, and the former is much less aggressive about culling unneeded packages. However, it appears that the previous version of gnucash and supporting libs did require libffi--at least, removing libffi required removing the old gnucash. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
