Indeed this was not a bug with Synaptic for me. Rather it turned out that it was caused by two repositories offering the same application with different version names, and causing a dependency to break when upgrading to what was seen as the most recent version.
-- After upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, Aptitude is not usable - because it tries each time to remove many programs with no apparent reason (but all is ok in apt-get) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477468 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs