Long ago I installed zypper 0.11.4 from the zypper backport repository. All worked fine. Since a few weeks I try to upgrade to zypper 0.12 but I always fail due to dependency issues.
#### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2008-08-04 21:05:53 ####
nothing provides satsolver-tools = 0.10.0 needed by libzypp-5.0.2-2.3.i586
] libzypp-5.0.2-2.3.i586 nicht installieren
nothing provides satsolver-tools = 0.10.0 needed by libzypp-5.0.2-2.3.i586
] zypper-0.12.0-2.1.i586 nicht installieren
nothing provides libzypp.so.424 needed by yast2-pkg-bindings-2.17.0-2.1.i586
] satsolver-tools-0.10.2-6.2.i586 nicht installieren
] Following actions will be done:
downgrade of yast2-pkg-bindings-2.16.38-2.2.i586 to yast2-pkg-bindings-2.15.51-4.i586
deinstallation of yast2-ncurses-pkg-2.16.13-2.2.i586
deinstallation of yast2-qt-pkg-2.16.46-2.6.i586
downgrade of yast2-online-update-2.17.0-2.2.noarch to yast2-online-update-2.15.24-0.1.noarch
downgrade of yast2-ntp-client-2.17.0-2.3.noarch to yast2-ntp-client-2.15.12-7.noarch
#### YaST2 conflicts list END ###
OK, satsolver-tools = 0.10.0 is demanded but 0.10.2 is available. Same with libzypp where libzypp.so.424 is demanded but libzypp.so.500 is provided.
Can anyone tell me how to (I) bypass these dependency issues and (II) report dependency problems to the packagers?