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Re: [LUG] Post-wheezy debian apt-get update removes 'less' WTFFF

 

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:50:06PM +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:32:54PM +0100, Paul Cupis wrote:
> >On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote:
> >>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >> man-db : Breaks: less (< 456) but 444-4 is installed.
> >
> >Hmm, man-db in Debian 7/wheezy does not have a problem being installed
> >alongside less - what version of man-db is that?
> >
> >Can you run "apt-cache policy man-db", please?
> >
> >>From a test box here there does not seem to be a problem with a pure
> >Debian 7/wheezy setup, perhaps you have something else enabled on
> >your system (testing/unstable for example)?
> 
> Testing
> 
> man-db:
>   Installed: 2.6.3-3
>   Candidate: 2.6.3-3
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.6.3-3 0
>         500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
>         500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Ah right. As a new stable has been released, testing will be a little volatile
as development picks up again.

This particular issue in Debian/testing looks to be:

  http://bugs.debian.org/695361

the last update on which was today and suggests that co-installable man-db
and less will be sorted out shortly as the bug has been downgraded to allow
a slightly fixed 'less' package to progress into Debian/testing.

Regards,


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