Re: Bug#46091: apt: unhelpful error
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Need to get 0B/29.7MB of archives. After unpacking 232kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend
> A package would be nice!
Well, you are never supposed to see that error :> It means one bit of code
isn't quite in tune with another bit of code..
> Depends: perl-5.005-base (= 5.005.03-4)
> Pre-Depends: perl-base (>= 5.004.04-2) | perl5-base
> Recommends: perl-5.005-doc (= 5.005.03-4)
> Suggests: perl-5.005-suid, perl-5.005-debug
It turns out that the installation ordering code completely ignored |
groups in pre-depends and treated them as &s. I've fixed that now, so this
problem should go away.
Jason
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