Package: cl-acl-compat Version: 1.2.42+cvs.2007.05.07-dfsg-3 Severity: normal cl-acl-compat ought to depend on cl-ppcre and cl-puri --- (require :acl-compat) generates errors on sbcl. [snip]@[snip] ~ $ sbcl This is SBCL 1.0.15.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. * (require :acl-compat) ; loading system definition from ; /usr/lib/sbcl/sb-bsd-sockets/sb-bsd-sockets.asd into #<PACKAGE "ASDF0"> ; registering #<SYSTEM SB-BSD-SOCKETS {10029C52E1}> as SB-BSD-SOCKETS ; registering #<SYSTEM SB-BSD-SOCKETS-TESTS {1002CA5361}> as ; SB-BSD-SOCKETS-TESTS debugger invoked on a ASDF:MISSING-DEPENDENCY in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {10027EAC41}>: component :CL-PPCRE not found, required by #<SYSTEM "acl-compat" {1002F8BF01}> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level. ((LABELS ASDF::DO-ONE-DEP) ASDF:COMPILE-OP :CL-PPCRE NIL) 0] If I install cl-ppcre I get past the above error, but get a new one referring to cl-puri. If I install cl-puri I can (require :acl-compat) without errors (AFAICS... I'm new to lisp). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cl-acl-compat depends on: ii common-lisp-controller 6.12 Common Lisp source and compiler ma cl-acl-compat recommends no packages. -- no debconf information Further information: sbcl is version 1:1.0.15.0-2 and cl-ppcre is (obviously) not installed. HTH HAND.