Error with updating the system

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:39 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Sharon Kimble <sharonm63 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Resolving Dependencies
> > > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > > ---> Package mjpegtools.i386 0:1.8.0-0.lvn.1.4 set to be updated
> > > --> Running transaction check
> > > --> Processing Dependency: libmjpegutils-1.7.so.0 for package: transcode
> > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > > Error: Missing Dependency: libmjpegutils-1.7.so.0 is needed by package
> > > transcode
> > >
> > I see that livna has transcode 1.0.0-0.lvn.3.3 in their unstable repo since
> > 28th September, so its obviously being tested out.
> 
> Then, if mjpegtools depends on a unstable transcode version, it would
> have been wiser not having made mjpegtools.i386 0:1.8.0-0.lvn.1.4
> available on the stable repository.
> 
> Paul
> 

You are reading that backwards.  Transcode depends on libmjpegtools not
the other way around.

The transcode package installed  specifically requires
libmjpegutils-1.7.so.0 and since the libmjpegutils library is being
updated and would remove that file, it fails because doing so would
break the installed dependency.

This may be a transcode issue for requiring an explicit library file,
but appears to be related to the installed version, not the
unstable/testing version.