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

[Lior Chen]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 12:34:40 you wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:08:04PM +0300, Lior Chen wrote:
> > Package: wordnet
> > Version: 1:3.0-15
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> >
> > 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.

As i understand both packages are from unstable. I also tried removing them 
(dpkg --purge) and reinstalling again, but it produced the same dependency 
error.


orion:~# apt-cache policy wordnet wordnet-base
wordnet:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.0-15
  Version table:
     1:3.0-15 0
        500 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
wordnet-base:
  Installed: 1:3.0-16
  Candidate: 1:3.0-16
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.0-16 0
        500 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thanks, 
Lior.