[Xapian-discuss] Debian and Ubuntu packages for 0.9.9 available

[Francis Irving]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:09:49AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:38:37AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> > I've uploaded Xapian 0.9.9:
> 
> I've just uploaded Debian and Ubuntu packages for 0.9.9 to the repo at
> http://www.xapian.org/debian/ - for access details see:
> 
> http://www.xapian.org/download.php#deb
> 
> These 0.9.9-1 packages include the xapian-bindings patch for Python 2.5
> support and the xapian-core patch for WritableDatabase::replace_document()
> which are detailed here:
> 
> http://wiki.xapian.org/ReleaseNotes
> 
> I've rejigged how the source and binary package uploading is done.  It
> all seems to have worked correctly, but if you notice any strange
> problems let me know and I'll fix them.

OK, another problem, this time in the Debian stable packages.

I'm running a Debian stable server. When I try to install Xapian
for PHP, I get the following dependency error:

root at seagrass:~# apt-get install php4-xapian
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:
  php4-xapian: Depends: phpapi-20020429 but it is not installable
  E: Broken packages

It turns out that the API version of PHP that I have is different from
that (September 2002, rather than April in the Xapian package).

root at seagrass:~# dpkg -s libapache-mod-php4 | egrep "Version|Provides"
Version: 4:4.3.10-18
Provides: php4-xml, phpapi-20020918

I'm pretty sure that is the "Provides" which the latest version of
libapache-mod-php4 has in stable.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/libapache-mod-php4

Where did you get a package with phpapi-20020429? Even the
pre-security fix PHP package is 20020918.

Thanks again!

Francis