Re: versioned dependencies broken?

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Axel Thimm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using versioned dependencies to select an older package that the
> newest in the repo, but I'm hitting a bug in apt.
...
> According to the debug log it looks like apt ignores the explictly
> versioned dependency. If the dependency is entered on the command line
> with install python-devel=2.3.4 it works.

It's not a bug, apt simply was never designed to do what you expect it to 
do in this case (unlike smartpm which can handle this), see Jason's 
comment in the thread starting here: 
http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2004-January/002199.html

 	- Panu -