Bug#876240: libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev: unmet dependency libghc-x11-xft-dev-0.3.1-c557c

[Sacha Delanoue]

On 09/21/2017 11:25 PM, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:16:13AM +0200, Sacha Delanoue wrote:
>> I tried to install libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev by doing
>> `apt install libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev` on an up-to-date 9.1 Debian.
>> The install failed with the following information:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev : Depends: libghc-x11-xft-dev-0.3.1-c557c
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> I am no expert in Debian, but a search on the Internet lead me to this:
>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/392888 stating that this kind of errors
>> in expected in Sid. But since I am using stable I reported it.
> 
> Please reply with the output of
> 
> dpkg -s libghc-x11-xft-dev | grep -e '^Status' -e '^Version' -e '^Provides'
> 

Hello,

Here is the output of the command:


dpkg-query: package 'libghc-x11-xft-dev' is not installed and no 
information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.


So I figured I should install it with `sudo apt-get install 
libghc-x11-xft-dev`

Status: install ok installed
Version: 0.3.1-11+b1
Provides: libghc-x11-xft-dev-0.3.1-c557c

With is exactly the version that was asked for 2 days ago. So I did 
`sudo apt-get install libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev` and now it worked.
I do not know if any `apt update` did the trick. I also found in between 
that I was missing `deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main 
contrib` in my source.list
I hope I did not do anything wrong and made you lose your time. But if 
it was indeed broken it seems fixed now.

Regards,

Sacha