won't install -- the new empathy-doc package has to be published

[Noel J. Bergman]

The current debian/control file for empathy has:

...
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
         ${misc:Depends},
         empathy-doc (= ${source:Version}),
         dbus-x11
...

and:

...
Package: empathy-doc
Architecture: all
Section: doc
Depends: ${misc:Depends}
Replaces: empathy (<< 2.27.92)
...

but that does not appear to have been built and published with Ubuntu (q.v., http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/karmic/empathy)

This results in being unable to install or upgrade, as with:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -s install empathy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  empathy: Depends: empathy-doc (= 2.27.92-1ubuntu1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

$ apt-cache show empathy-doc

Building from source does provide it:

$ ls -l *.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 125798 2009-09-10 20:48 empathy_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 170108 2009-09-10 20:47 empathy-doc_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 181900 2009-09-10 20:48 empathy-megaphone-applet_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 148344 2009-09-10 20:48 libempathy30_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 1110662 2009-09-10 20:47 libempathy-common_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 393602 2009-09-10 20:48 libempathy-dev_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 256004 2009-09-10 20:47 libempathy-doc_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 161896 2009-09-10 20:48 libempathy-gtk28_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 445300 2009-09-10 20:47 libempathy-gtk-common_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 228400 2009-09-10 20:48 libempathy-gtk-dev_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 248444 2009-09-10 20:47 libempathy-gtk-doc_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 221590 2009-09-10 20:48 python-empathy_2.27.92-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

[falsedan (falsedan+ubunu-launchpad)]

libempathy-gtk-common & libempathy-common need their 2.27.92-1ubuntu1 versions published, too

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is no need to open bugs about those transitional issues

[Son (son.caokim)]

On 30th Sep, this "transitional, fix-released issue" still exists with an up-to-date Karmic installation (on LPIA architecture). Can anyone confirm? Thanks