Bug#525163: Broken dependency with libpri1.0 when installing asterisk in sid

[Bruno Condez]

Package: asterisk
Version: 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3
Severity: serious
Justification: no longer builds from source


When trying to install asterisk it fails with a broken dependency:

daedalus:~# aptitude install asterisk

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  asterisk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  asterisk-config{a} asterisk-sounds-main{a} debhelper{a} gettext{a} html2text{a} intltool-debian{a} libc-client2007b{a} libcompress-raw-zlib-perl{a} libcompress-zlib-perl{a}
  libcroco3{a} libgsm1{a} libiksemel3{a} libio-compress-base-perl{a} libio-compress-zlib-perl{a} libltdl7{a} libmail-sendmail-perl{a} libpq5{a} libradiusclient-ng2{a}
  libsensors3{a} libsnmp-base{a} libsnmp15{a} libspeexdsp1{a} libsqlite0{a} libsys-hostname-long-perl{a} libtonezone1{a} libvorbisenc2{a} libvpb0{a} mlock{a}
  module-assistant{a} odbcinst1debian1{a} po-debconf{a} unixodbc{a} vpb-driver-source{a}
0 packages upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.9MB/15.0MB of archives. After unpacking 36.4MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  asterisk: Depends: libpri1.0 (>= 1.4) which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
asterisk [Not Installed]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
asterisk-config recommends asterisk
asterisk-sounds-main recommends asterisk
Score is -10281

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q

daedalus:~# aptitude search libpri
p   libpri-dev                                                                        - Primary Rate ISDN specification development files
p   libpri1.4                                                                         - Primary Rate ISDN specification library
p   libprima-perl                                                                     - multi-platform GUI development toolkit for Perl
p   libprinterconf-dev                                                                - Printer autodetection library
p   libprinterconf0c2a                                                                - Printer autodetection library
p   libprintsys                                                                       - printcap parser, helper for gnulpr's printfilters
p   libprintsys-dev 


I tried installing "libpri1.4" but makes no difference.
This error prevents me from installing asterisk.


Hopefully this will be a quick fix for the mainteiner.



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APT Sources List:

# Main Repos
deb http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

# Multimedia Repo
deb http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/debian-multimedia/ unstable main



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash