Debian Bug report logs - #673939
apt: please be smarter about resuming after an interrupted/failed unpack

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Sophoklis Goumas <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 07:18:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version apt/0.9.3

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Subject: Re: Bug#673939: zlib1g-dev: version 1:1.2.7.dfsg-7 requires an
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On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:14:02AM +0300, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:

> When trying to install zlib1g-dev, apt fails after reporting this:

> ....
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zlib1g-dev:i386:
>  zlib1g-dev:i386 depends on zlib1g (= 1:1.2.7.dfsg-4); however:
>   Version of zlib1g:i386 on system is 1:1.2.7.dfsg-7.
> ....

This is not a bug in the package, the library package is built at the
same time as the -dev package and -7 of both is available in the archive.

When something like this happens you need to check that the relevant
pacakge is actually missing, frequently it's a bug in the dependency
(eg, it itself has an unsatisfied depend and is uninstallable) but in
this case it looks like a bug in apt as the dependencies for zlib1g are
very basic.

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