Bug#324773: unable to apt-get install gnome for several weeks

[Ryan Johns]

Jordi Mallach wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:56:36PM -0500, Ryan Johns wrote:
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>>If I try to install 'gnome-desktop-environment' there is a dependency
>>problem with 'evince' or 'gpdf'.  I can repeat this process with each of
>>the dependecies on down the tree.
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>The C++ transition has some of the dependencies broken. For GNOME
>packages, we're trying not to fix some of the dependencies because that
>would delay the migration of GNOME 2.10 to testing even more than it is
>now, so we're just sitting on our fixes for these problems until X and
>other big packages can go into testing all at once. When this happens,
>you'll see GNOME fixes at the normal pace again.
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>In short, patience :(
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>Jordi
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I figured it was something like that.  Thanks for the quick reply.

Ryan