Uninstallable Task Packages

[Peter Ganten <peter@ganten.org>]

Hello, 

I reported the same problem in some different context allready, 
but since there was no answer, here it is again:

After a fresh install of a potato system with boot-floppies 2.2.8
(i386) and no packages installed, besides those in the base-system,
it is unpossible to install certain task-packages. 

For example, trying to install task-gnome-desktop will yield the
following result:

apt-get install task-gnome-desktop

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
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:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  task-gnome-desktop: Depends: gmc but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: gnome-faq but it is not going to be installed


On the other hand, the following command works fine:

apt-get install task-gnome-desktop gnome-faq gmc

So, the package is (theoreticly) installable. This is the reason,
why I feel unsure here, against which package I should file a bug with
this problem: apt or the task-package


Greetings,

Peter 



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Peter Ganten
peter@ganten.org