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Posted: **20 Feb 2009, 15:57**

Hi,

I am trying to create and Debian package from source with the dpkg-buildpackage command but it complains about not having the package debhelper installed. The problem is that debhelper is not installeable in the current configuration since the debhelper package in the Excito repositories is an much newer then the one in the etch repositories and it needs an newer dpkg-dev then can be found in the repositories. Is there an reson for this?

This is the error from trying install the debhelper package

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% apt-get install debhelper
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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  debhelper: Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.15) but 1.13.25 is to be installed
             Depends: man-db (>= 2.5.1-1) but 2.4.3-6 is to be installed

This is the information that I get from apt-cache

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ryz:~# apt-cache showpkg debhelper
Package: debhelper
Versions: 
7.0.13ubuntu1(/var/lib/apt/lists/update.excito.org_dists_marielle_main_binary-powerpc_Packages)
5.0.42(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.se.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-powerpc_Packages)

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Dependencies: 
7.0.13ubuntu1 - binutils (0 (null)) dpkg-dev (2 1.14.15) file (2 3.23) html2text (0 (null)) man-db (2 2.5.1-1) perl (2 5.6.0-16) po-debconf (0 (null)) dh-make (0 (null)) dpkg-cross (3 1.18) python-central (3 0.5.6) python-support (3 0.5.3) 
5.0.42 - perl (2 5.6.0-16) coreutils (0 (null)) file (2 3.23-1) dpkg-dev (2 1.13.13) html2text (0 (null)) binutils (0 (null)) po-debconf (0 (null)) dh-make (0 (null)) dpkg-cross (3 1.18) python-support (3 0.5.3) python-central (3 0.5.6) 
Provides: 
7.0.13ubuntu1 - 
5.0.42 - 
Reverse Provides:

Posted: **20 Feb 2009, 16:54**

We are using the debhelper found at backports.org for etch, I'm gonna include it into our stable repo asap as we only have it in our unstable repo at the moment.

/Carl

Posted: **20 Feb 2009, 17:06**

carl wrote:We are using the debhelper found at backports.org for etch, I'm gonna include it into our stable repo asap as we only have it in our unstable repo at the moment.

/Carl

Have installed debhelper 7.0.15~bpo40+2 into the repo now.

/Carl

Posted: **21 Feb 2009, 11:53**

It still complains about man-db

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debhelper: Depends: man-db (>= 2.5.1-1) but 2.4.3-6 is to be installed

Posted: **21 Feb 2009, 12:05**

ryz wrote:It still complains about man-db
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debhelper: Depends: man-db (>= 2.5.1-1) but 2.4.3-6 is to be installed

Oops; installed that too now into marielle. sorry

/Carl

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