[maemo-developers] debhelper in Sardine

[From: Murray Cumming]

I'm trying to build a debian package for cairomm, using the original
debian package. It needs debhelper, but it doesn't seem to be available
in Sardine (It is available in Bora). I never fully understand apt-get
errors but here they are in case they provide a clue:


[sbox-SDK_ALPHA_X86: ~/packages_cairomm/cairomm-1.4.4] > apt-get install
debhelper
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  debhelper: Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Broken packages
[sbox-SDK_ALPHA_X86: ~/packages_cairomm/cairomm-1.4.4] > apt-get install
dpkg-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  dpkg-dev: Depends: perl5
E: Broken packages
[sbox-SDK_ALPHA_X86: ~/packages_cairomm/cairomm-1.4.4] > apt-get install
perl5
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting perl instead of perl5
perl is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.


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