[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#708983: closed by Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.org> (Bug#708983: fixed in net-snmp 5.7.2~dfsg-6)

[Tom Nicholls]

On 25/05/13 10:52, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 01:27 +0100, Tom Nicholls wrote:
>> This change seems to have created a dependency conflict for libhpmud0,
>> which is required for the main printer-driver-hpcups package. libhpmud0
>> depends on both libsnmp15 and libsnmp-base, but libsnmp15 is no longer
>> installable because of the conflict with libsnmp-base.
>>
>> The consequence of this was that HP printers stopped working! Fixed only
>> by forcibly downgrading libsnmp-base to 5.4.3.
>
> Which version are you trying to install? -7 no longer has a conflicts,
> but a versioned Breaks / Replaces which should work okay.

It's with -7. aptitude output is as follows:

tom at maturin:~$ sudo aptitude install libsnmp-base=5.7.2~dfsg-7
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libsnmp-base{b}
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,565 kB of archives. After unpacking 574 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libsnmp-base : Breaks: libsnmp15 (< 5.7.2~dfsg-5) but 5.4.3~dfsg-3 is 
installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:
1)     libhpmud0
2)     libsnmp15
3)     printer-driver-hpcups

      Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
4)     printer-driver-all recommends printer-driver-hpcups


I'm relatively new to handling dependency conflicts, so it's possible 
I'm doing something wrong - if so, I'd be grateful if you could let me know.

Thanks,
T