[Pkg-oss4-maintainers] Bug#703843: liboss4-salsa-asound2: cannot install

[A Mennucc]

Package: liboss4-salsa-asound2
Version: 4.2-build2007-2
Severity: important

hi,

I have all the 'alsa' stuff installed;  I tried to replace it with
 OSS4, but the install of liboss4-salsa-asound2 utterly failed.

I see that  liboss4-salsa-asound2 provides libasound2
but it seems that this is not enough.

IMHO the problem is that 'Provides' do not satisfy a versioned 'Depends':
«If a relationship field has a version number attached, only
 real packages will be considered to see whether the relationship is satisfied»
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

So your 'Provides' is not working as you expect.

You should use a different approach, divert the ALSA library
and substitute with your link; and remove the 'Conflicts' line.

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Here are my failed attempts at installing it

# apt-get -t sid  --ignore-hold install liboss4-salsa-asound2
 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:
  liboss4-salsa-asound2 : Conflicts: libasound2
 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


I then tried this.
# dpkg --force-all -r libasound2:amd64  libasound2:i386
and then again
# apt-get -t unstable --ignore-hold install liboss4-salsa-asound2  liboss4-salsa-asound2:i386
and the result is as in attachment.

a.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- 
Andrea Mennucc
 "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)
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You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 alsa-utils : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.25)
 audacious-plugins : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 audacity : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 chromium : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 dosbox : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 emacs23 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 emacs24 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 gnome-alsamixer : Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.24.1)
 gstreamer0.10-alsa : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 icedove : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 iceowl : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 lib32asound2 : Depends: libasound2 (= 1.0.25-4)
 liballegro4.4-plugin-alsa : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libasound2-dev : Depends: libasound2 (= 1.0.25-4)
 libasound2-plugins : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.25)
 libavdevice53 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libcanberra0 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libesd0 : Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.24.1)
 libflite1 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libfluidsynth1 : Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.24.1)
 libgcj12 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
            Recommends: gcj-4.6-jre-lib (>= 4.6.1-9) but it is not going to be installed
 libgcj13 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libportaudio2 : Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.24.1)
 libportmidi0 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libsdl1.2debian : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libsox-fmt-alsa : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 libvisual-0.4-plugins : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 mencoder : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 mplayer : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 openjdk-6-jre : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 pax-britannica : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 pulseaudio : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.24.1)
 qemu-kvm : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 qemu-system : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 rdesktop : Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.24.1)
 skype:i386 : Depends: libasound2:i386 (>= 1.0.16)
 speech-dispatcher : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 stormbaancoureur : Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.18)
 timidity : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 vlc-nox : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 xulrunner-13.0 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 xulrunner-18.0 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
 xulrunner-19.0 : Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

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