Bug#500526: Can not be install, missing or incomplete dependencies

[Sven Joachim]

reassign 500526 python-gnome2-extras 2.19.1-2
tags 500526 + sid
thanks

On 2008-09-29 07:50 +0200, Kartik Mistry wrote:

> Package: istanbul
> Version: 0.2.2-4
> Severity: serious
>
> Package can't be install on Sid. I have tried on both i386/amd64 arch.
>
> kartik at olive:~$ sudo apt-get install istanbul
> 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.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> istanbul: Depends: python-gnome2-extras but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> When I tried to install python-gnome2-extras, it leads to more missing
> dependency problems.

Tracking this down further, the problem is that python-gnome2-extras
depends on libgdl-gnome-1-0 which is no longer built:

,----
| gdl (2.24.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|    * New upstream release.
|    - Remove now-unused libgdl-gnome binary packages.
`----

While the libgdl-gnome-1-0 binary package is still there, it depends on
an older version of libgdl-1-common than is available.

Reassigning to python-gnome2-extras,

Sven