Subject: gclcvs 2.7.0-84 uninstallable: requires exact obsolete version of binutils-dev
From: Francois-Rene Rideau <[email-masked]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:25:28 -0500

Package: gclcvs
Version: 2.7.0-84
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

The package has a binutils-dev (<= 2.18.1~cvs20071027-999) requirement that makes it unusable for anyone that didn't install it precisely when that now obsolete version of binutils was current. Why such a requirement? The mind boggles.

No wonder no one has installed a new gclcvs in ages...

Package: gclcvs
Priority: optional
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 176772
Maintainer: Camm Maguire <[email-masked]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.7.0-84
Depends: binutils-dev (<= 2.18.1~cvs20071027-999), binutils-dev (>= 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1), common-lisp-controller, debconf (>= 1.2.0), emacs22 | emacsen, gcc, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libgmp3c2, libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), libsm6, libx11-6, libxaw7, libxext6, libxmu6, libxt6, tcl8.4 (>= 8.4.5), tk8.4 (>= 8.4.5)
Suggests: gclcvs-doc
Filename: pool/main/g/gclcvs/gclcvs_2.7.0-84_i386.deb

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.9-blefuscu
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.iso-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- debconf information excluded