Bug#538369: [wordnet] wordnet fails to install because of unmet wordnet-base dependency

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:08:04PM +0300, Lior Chen wrote:
> Package: wordnet
> Version: 1:3.0-15
> Severity: normal
> 
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> 
> wordnet depends on wordnet-base 1:3.0-15, but wordnet-base 
> 1:3.0-16 is installed.
> 
> 
> orion:~# apt-get install wordnet
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 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.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   wordnet: Depends: wordnet-base (= 1:3.0-15) but 1:3.0-16 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
> orion:~# dpkg -l | grep wordnet-base
> ii  wordnet-base                         1:3.0-16                     
> electronic lexical database of English langu

Could you please send me the output of

   apt-cache policy wordnet wordnet-base

It should look somehow like

wordnet:
  Installiert: 1:3.0-15
  Kandidat: 1:3.0-15
  Versions-Tabelle:
     1:3.0-16 0
         50 http://debian.tu-bs.de unstable/main Packages
 *** 1:3.0-15 0
        501 file: testing/main Packages
        501 http://debian.tu-bs.de testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
wordnet-base:
  Installiert: 1:3.0-15
  Kandidat: 1:3.0-15
  Versions-Tabelle:
     1:3.0-16 0
         50 http://debian.tu-bs.de unstable/main Packages
 *** 1:3.0-15 0
        501 file: testing/main Packages
        501 http://debian.tu-bs.de testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I suspect that you somehow fetched wordnet-base from unstable
and now have a version conflict and this is not really a wordnet
problem out in itself.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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