[8637] in athena10
Re: pythod-hesiod wants python <2.7 on testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Nov 6 13:45:10 2011
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
To: Michael Forbes <miforbes@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>, debathena@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:45:04 -0500
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1111052322190.14997@vincent> (Michael Forbes's
message of "Sat, 5 Nov 2011 23:23:41 -0400 (EDT)")
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Please try apt-get's --only-source flag, which instructs it to disregard
the binary packages' elaborate version numbers.
Michael Forbes <miforbes@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Ok, that sounds reasonable.
>
> Unfortunately I can't seem to apt-get source it:
>
> 2011-11-05 23:21 [root@vincent ~]# apt-get source python-hesiod
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Ignore unavailable version '0.2.10-1debathena2~debian6.0~0.2' of
> package 'python-hesiod'
> E: Unable to find a source package for python-hesiod
>
> Any help?
>
> -Michael
>
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>
>> You can recompile python-hesiod locally ("apt-get python-hesiod", cd
>> into the directory, "debuild", and run dpkg -i on the resulting
>> .deb). Alternatively, I hope at some point to have packages built
>> for wheezy, but they won't be officially supported and I don't have
>> an expected time frame for that.
>>
>> --
>> Geoffrey Thomas
>> SIPB Debathena team
>> debathena@mit.edu
>>
>> On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Michael Forbes wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm using debathena on debian testing-amd64 (which I realize is not
>>> officially supported). python-hesiod requires python <2.7, but
>>> debian testing now uses python 2.7 now.
>>>
>>> I can force-install the package (at least to fix dependencies) but
>>> this makes aptitude quite unhappy as it wants to uninstall it each
>>> time I try to install something new.
>>>
>>> Can someone point me as to how make aptitude less unhappy on this
>>> (or change the dependencies of python-hesiod)?
>>>
>>> -Michael
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