[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#771693: samba-dev: unable to install samba-dev

[J G Miller]

Package: samba-dev
Version: 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1~bpo70+1
Severity: normal

On Debian Release 7.7 (current Debian stable) it appears not to be
possible to install the samba-dev package.

apt-get --simulate --ignore-hold  install samba-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:
 samba-dev : Depends: libtdb-dev (>= 1.2.11) but 1.2.10-2 is to be installed
             Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1~bpo70+1) but it is
             not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

As can be seen above apt-get complains "you have held broken
packages", even though the "--ignore-hold" flag is specified,
and there are no broken packages on the system.

[17:35] civet:{~/}# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Why is samba-dev depending on a version of libtdb-dev which is
not available in Debian stable?


apt-get install libtdb-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libtdb-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


[17:40] civet:{~/}# dpkg -l libtdb-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                       Version            Architecture       Description
+++-==========================-==================-==================-=========================================================
ii  libtdb-dev                 1.2.10-2           armhf
Trivial Database - development files


The same problem also exists for Debian Release 7.7 on the
armv5tel architecture.

Thank you for your assistance in resolving this issue.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.35.8-armhf.com (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages samba-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev           2.13-38+deb7u6
pn  libldb-dev          <none>
pn  libparse-pidl-perl  <none>
ii  libpopt-dev         1.16-7
ii  libtalloc-dev       2.0.7+git20120207-1
ii  libtdb-dev          1.2.10-2
pn  samba-libs          <none>

samba-dev recommends no packages.

samba-dev suggests no packages.