apt/synaptic issue with php-imap

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:01:18 -0400 (EDT), duncan brown wrote:

> i've already submitted the bug report (#1619)
> 
> apt and synaptic determine that php needs to be installed for php-imap (no
> duh), but then decide immediately after that it needs to be removed.   if
> i have php installed already, they attempt to uninstall and panic.
> 
> yum does not have any such issue.  i think this may be because of the way
> they built their apt repo.

See "rpm -q --obsoletes php". The main php package obsoletes php-imap,
which is a separate package unfortunately.