07 May 2013

405. First breakage in Debian Jessie? less vs man-db

Update 12/5/13: less 456 is in the debian repos now so the breakage is resolved:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=less

For some reason less (<456) and man-db conflict. man-db in turn is a requirement for yelp, which is a requirement for gnome-core which is a requirement for gnome. In other words, you currently have a choice between less or gnome.

More here: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1117622.html

verahill@debianstd:~/tmp/poppler_build$ sudo apt-get install less
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome gnome-core gnome-user-guide man-db yelp The following NEW packages will be installed: less 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/135 kB of archives. After this operation, 29.4 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

4 comments:

  1. Easy fix for this, is to get the version of Less from Sid and install it. But I found this troubling as well, especially since it's been a week and this hasn't been fixed yet.

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    1. Getting it from sid would've been easier in this particular case due the few dependencies, but it can be a risky approach in general due the possibility of other dependencies being pulled in. Unless you simply download the .deb of course.

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  2. Actually, to correct my last post. It has been fixed

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    1. Thanks for the update -- I'll update the post.

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