[UNMETDEPS] atokx has unmet dependencies

atokx (1.0-16) depends on

xlibs (>= 4.0) (not available) or

xlib6g (>= 3.3.3.1) (not available)

NB this is non-free software - doesn't allow redistribution.

xlibs was in warty, hoary and breezy.

Can't find a product to file this in so can't link properly but:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370194

Grave, atokx: broken hard-coded dependency on non-existent packages

The bug has been filed since June, the maintainer is <email address hidden>

It's been suggested that Debian removes the package from its archive as "there is no version of either package generally available, in or outside of Debian, which is compatible with etch." and popcon suggests low usage.

atokx installs fine for me (I do not get any installation dependency problem), but to completly test the installation process I have to own atokx which I do not do.

Otherwise the installation quits like this:

martin@martin-desktop:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install atokx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libdb4.2 libbigloo2.8a
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  atokx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/11.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package atokx.
(Reading database ... 299373 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking atokx (from .../archives/atokx_1.0-16_i386.deb) ...
Setting up atokx (1.0-16) ...
md5sum: /tmp/atokx-1.0-1.i386.tgz: No such file or directory
Bad archive: /tmp/atokx-1.0-1.i386.tgz
dpkg: error processing atokx (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 atokx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Argh. I am sorry.. I had packages from post-dapper installed..

The same issue appears to me, too.

Fixed in 1.0-18.

Reopening for dapper.

The Missing dependency is still there.
The postinst script failure is something different. atokx needs a manual download of 2 archives. If it's not done, the configuration fails.

I'm preparing a patch for an SRU.

The same package is in edgy, and can be fixed in the same way (just needs a different distro target in the changelog).

Is there any news on this? Did anyone apply for an SRU?

Please, go ahead and upload to -proposed.

Consider using this versioning:
1.0-16ubuntu0.6.06 for dapper-proposed
1.0-16ubuntu0.6.10 for edgy-proposed

Edgy will reach End Of Life status on April 26, so there is no time to release this SRU this in time.

This will require additional love, see debian 478434.

Version 1.0-16ubuntu1 uploaded to hardy-proposed.

I mean dapper-proposed.

Accepted into dapper-proposed, please test.

Package in dapper-proposed installs fine.

Copied to dapper-updates.