Package Updater fails on dependency failure, but dependency is there

[Michael Schwendt]

On 28/07/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > Good morning, all.
> >
> > First of all, I'm certain this question has been addressed before but I
> > cannot find any way to search the archives... only thing that's
> > available is to call up each archive individually, open each thread
> > individually that looks like it might contain useful information, and read.
> >
> > Isn't there a way to search the archives on keyword?
> >
> > Now, my main question... attempting to use Package Updater to update my
> > F7 installation on VMware (which has always worked well before) and got
> > "Error resolving dependencies".  Clicked on Details and got "Missing
> > Dependency firefox=2.0.0.4 is needed by package Democracy".
> >
> > First of all, what the heck is package Democracy?  I tried to find it in
> > the list of stuff to be updated, so that I could deselect it and update
> > everything else, and it wasn't there.
> >
> > Mainly, though ... I HAVE Firefox 2.0.0.4.  How do I convince Package
> > Updater that I have what it says it needs?
>
>
> You misunderstood the message. You have a package called Democracy which
> is build against a older version of Firefox while a newer version is
> available as an update.

It is a broken dependency in Fedora 7. The democracy packager has not
released an update yet.