I believe I am also affected by this bug, or a close variant of it. On a FRESH Quantal Alpha one installation, trying to install gnome- session-fallback (I will avoid editorial commentary about Unity), I get warnings about being unable to mark packages for installation because of unmet dependencies.
If I am told that gnome-session-fallback requires gnome-panel, but I haven't selected it, then gnome-session-fallback should be marked, and allow me to go ahead and mark gnome-panel, and mark any other required packages. This, mind you, is during the MARKING of packages, not the application of those packages. I expect a warning, and possibly refusal to actually install packages with broken dependencies; but its' refusal to allow marking is incomprehensible. What I would expect is that the selected packages are marked for installation, and get a warning with the unmet dependencies, and the ability of the user to mark any, and all needed dependencies subsequently. IMHO, the current behavior is unacceptable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1011064 Title: cannot fix broken packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1011064/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
