[maemo-developers] Autobuilder apt-get problems => failing builds

[From: Andrew Flegg]

Hi,

Attempting to upload a new version of vim to the Fremantle
auto-builder, I get the following failure:

    https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/vim_7.2-0maemo6/armel.root.log.FAILED.txt

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  debconf: PreDepends: perl-base (>= 5.6.1-4) but it is not going to
be installed
  debhelper: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: coreutils but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: file (>= 3.23-1) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: html2text but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: binutils but it is not going to be installed
  dpkg-dev: Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.6) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: perl5
            Depends: cpio (>= 2.4.2-2) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: bzip2 but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: patch (>= 2.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: make but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: binutils but it is not going to be installed
  intltool-debian: Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: gettext but it is not going to be installed
  libtimedate-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to
be installed
  maemo-optify: Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
  mini-rc: Depends: ifupdown but it is not going to be installed
  osso-core-config: Depends: passwd but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: busybox but it is not installable or
                             coreutils but it is not going to be installed
                    PreDepends: base-passwd (>= 3.5.7.osso2) but it is
not going to be installed
  perl-modules: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.3-1) but it is not going to be installed
  po-debconf: Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: gettext (>= 0.12) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
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This doesn't sound good. Known issue? My fault?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

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