[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#839178: codecrypt impossible dependencies

bancfc at openmailbox.org bancfc at openmailbox.org
Sat Oct 1 12:18:12 UTC 2016


On 2016-10-01 08:15, Jason Crain wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:22:52PM +0200, bancfc at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>   Dear maintainer, I am trying to install codecrypt from a pinned sid 
>> repo
>> on Jessie.
> 
> You are mixing the stable and unstable releases.  Do not do this.  It
> will break things.  See https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian.
> 
>>   After including other dependency packages as well, apt has run into 
>> a
>> unresolvable dependency requirement. libstdc++6 insists on 
>> libkolabxml1
>> 1.1.0-3 while the newest version available in sid is 1.0.2-2
> 
> The problem is that codecrypt and other packages on sid use a newer
> libstdc++6 version.  Packages on jessie use an older libstdc++6 
> version.
> It's warning you that if you upgrade libstdc++6, you will break every
> c++ program you have installed.
> 
>>   AFAICT this dependency conflict is a blocker even if the user is 
>> running
>> unstable.
> 
> The dependencies worked fine for me when I installed it on a fully sid
> system.
> 
> If you want it to work on jessie, it needs to be recompiled for jessie.
> The build-depends don't look bad so you shouldn't run into problems
> making a backport.

Ah OK. Thanks for the explanation.



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