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I have a package that depends on an old version of tornado:

[DEFAULT]
Package: tonythepony
Depends: python-tornado (<= 1.3), python-git

There is a repository that provides python-tornado=1.2.1-1, none the less, I get this error message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 tonythepony : Depends: python-tornado (<= 1.3) but 2.1.0-2ubuntu0.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So, in order to install the package, I have to run this:

sudo apt-get install python-tornado=1.2.1-1
sudo apt-get install tonythepony

Is there any way to make it so that tonythepony just fetches and installs the older version? (again: I have my own repository, which provides the older version)

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I'm assuming in the second paste block, you installed it with dpkg? dpkg doesn't grab dependencies, it just installs the local deb files you give it. – tumbleweed Dec 12 '12 at 14:51
I'm actually just using apt-get here (and gdebifor local testing) – Stefano Palazzo♦ Dec 12 '12 at 17:49
Did you see the "you have held broken packages"? – tumbleweed Dec 12 '12 at 22:07
Pretty sure it refers to the package being installed at the moment. I've been trying this out on fresh VMs. – Stefano Palazzo♦ Dec 13 '12 at 13:05
so, you've checked to see that nothing is held? I don't know what gdebi does under the hood... – tumbleweed Dec 13 '12 at 14:35

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