Should be more verbose with unsatisfiable dependencies

Bug #453525 reported by Luca Falavigna
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Bug Description

Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/473542.

jon@ANKH:~$ sudo gdebi swiftweasel-2.0.0.13_pentium-4_ubuntu-i386.deb
[sudo] password for jon:
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
This package is uninstallable
Failed to satisfy all dependencies (broken cache)jon@ANKH:~$

It would be handy to know what was wrong with the cache and
how a beginner might go about fixing it.

In this case,

jon@ANKH:~$ sudo apt-get check
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  gnome-do: Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.5.12) but 1.4.14-1 is installed
            Recommends: gnome-do-plugins but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Changed in gdebi:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote :

Fixed in 0.6.1 with porting to python-apt 0.8.

Changed in gdebi:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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