Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

Oh dear, I'm an idiot.  I just realized that dselect was warning me
-not- to upgrade slang because of the dependency problem with
upgrading.  Still, will I have to perpetually hold slang1 back?


On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:09:31PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> This is an odd dependency problem I've been seeing lately from slang1:
> 
> lynx-ssl depends on slang1 (<< 1.3)
> bb depends on slang1 (<< 1.3)
> libggi-target-aa depends on slang1 (<< 1.3)
> urlview depends on slang1 (<< 1.3)
> gimp depends on slang1 (<< 1.3)
> 
> dselect reports this as a dependency conflict even though I have
> slang1 1.2.2-0.2 installed.  Now, if I'm reading it correctly those
> packages are asking for a version of slang1 -less than- 1.3, which is
> what I have so where's the problem?
<snicker-snatch>

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Michael G Schwern                                           schwern@pobox.com
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