Bug#817017: libopencv-highgui-dev: Should not depend on libgtk2.0-dev

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

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On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:53:03 +0100 Eric Valette <eric.valette at free.fr> wrote:
> Package: libopencv-highgui-dev
> Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-1~exp2+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> LANG=C; apt-get -t experimental install libopencv-dev
> 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:
>  libopencv-dev : Depends: libopencv-objdetect-dev (= 3.0.0+dfsg-1~exp2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
>                  Depends: libopencv-highgui-dev (= 3.0.0+dfsg-1~exp2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
>                  Depends: libopencv-calib3d-dev (= 3.0.0+dfsg-1~exp2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
>                  Depends: libopencv-features2d-dev (= 3.0.0+dfsg-1~exp2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
>                  Depends: libopencv-videostab-dev (= 3.0.0+dfsg-1~exp2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
>                  Depends: libopencv-stitching-dev (= 3.0.0+dfsg-1~exp2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> tri-yann4:/home/valette# LANG=C; apt-get -t experimental install libopencv-highgui-dev
> 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:
>  libopencv-highgui-dev : Depends: libgtk2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So why was / is libgtk2.0-dev uninstallable?

That it was temporarily uninstallable, or that apt failed at installing it
(possibly because of the experimental priorities) doesn't mean that
libopencv-highgui-dev shouldn't depend on it.

Emilio