Error Depends: libcap1 but it is not installable

Tyler, thanks for reporting it.

This is a problem for Lucid as well. The package needs to be rebuilt, but currently it FTBFS.

For Lucid, we might as well merge it with 0.2.2-4. The part of the fix which is relevant for Debian can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526668 .

0.2.2-4 vs 0.2.2-4ubuntu1

0.2.2-3ubuntu1 vs 0.2.2-4ubuntu1

SRU justification

The package is not installable.
The problem is being addressed in Lucid by rebuilding package to pick up correct binary dependencies. This involves patching source to add necessary headers (for gcc 4.4 / eglibc 2.10) and building without strict-aliasing optimizations because upstream code isn't clean in this respect.

TEST CASE:
$ sudo apt-get install nepenthes
[sudo] password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  nepenthes: Depends: libcap1 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Subscribed u-u-s and motu-sru.

Uploaded. Thanks for your contribution!

I modified a bit the changelog, and added a change to have a cleaner debdiff from now on ;-)

Thanks,
Fabrice

This bug was fixed in the package nepenthes - 0.2.2-4ubuntu1

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nepenthes (0.2.2-4ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Ilya Barygin ]
  * Merge from Debian testing (LP: #486015), remaining changes:
    - 06_warn_unused_result.dpatch: Patch several source files to take
      results from various function call in order to fix FTBFS.
  * New patch 07_includes_for_eglibc_2.10.dpatch to fix FTBFS due to
    missing headers.
  * Build with -fno-strict-aliasing to avoid build errors.

  [ Fabrice Coutadeur ]
  * debian/rules: moved config.guess and config.guess creation from clean to
    build target to reduce the size of the debdiff.
 -- Ilya Barygin <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:26:49 +0300

SRU uploaded to -proposed.
Waiting for SRU approval.

Ilya: In your changelog entry, remember to target -proposed for a SRU instead of -updates, and also remember to always mention the file you modify (debian/rules for the CXX flag in that case).

Thanks,
Fabrice

Accepted nepenthes into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

0.2.2-3ubuntu1.1 installs from archive.

This bug was fixed in the package nepenthes - 0.2.2-3ubuntu1.1

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nepenthes (0.2.2-3ubuntu1.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * Rebuild for libcap1 -> libcap2 transition (LP: #486015).
  * New patches 06_includes_for_eglibc_2.10.dpatch,
    07_includes_for_gcc_4.4.dpatch to fix FTBFS due to missing headers
  * debian/rules: Build with -fno-strict-aliasing to avoid build errors.
 -- Ilya Barygin <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:41:38 +0300