I am experiencing some strange apt behavior. I have a machine with a mix of unstable and testing packages installed. I'm trying to upgrade some packages from unstable, and failing. Specifically:
# apt-cache show libnspr4 Package: libnspr4 Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 268 Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: mozilla Version: 2:0.9.3+0-3 Replaces: libnspr3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1) Conflicts: libnspr3 Filename: pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/libnspr4_0.9.3+0-3_i386.deb Size: 99392 MD5sum: e6ae316084a539a83a48360dd34474c5 Description: Netscape Portable Runtime Library This library provides platform independent non-GUI operating system facilities including: * threads, * thread synchronisation, * normal file I/O and network I/O, * interval timing and calender time, * basic memory management (malloc and free), * shared library linking. . See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/refNSPR/ for more information. [more] # apt-get install libnspr4/unstable Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 2:0.9.3+0-3 (Debian:unstable) for libnspr4 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 that 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: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libnspr4: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1) but 2.2.4-1 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages But: # dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version: Version: 2.2.4-1 This seems to meet the Depends just fine. So, what is apt complaining about? If I download the libnspr 2:0.9.3+0-3 .deb and install it with dpkg -i, everything seems fine. I'd file a bug report, but I'm not sure what to file it against. Marc
