Brian Morris <[email protected]> comments on Mon, 28 Nov 2022
12:50:07 -0800 about a report from Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]>
about the failure to install emacs-nox on Debian on M68K.
I too have seen that, and just did a fresh try:
# apt-get install mailutils emacs-common emacs-bin-common
...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
emacs-bin-common : Depends: emacs-common (= 1:28.2+1-3) but
1:28.2+1-6 is to be installed
That looks to me like a messed-up dependency chain in the apt package
system on this platform, using requirements of exact version matches,
rather than greater-than-or-equal version checks.
Packaging systems really do need consistency checkers, so that broken
dependencies are caught before packages are made available to end
users. I have seen this happen on numerous flavors of Unix-family
O/Ses: it is not unique to Debian on M68K.
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