• cannot install git because of a dependency issue

    From Paul Dufresne@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 28 23:50:01 2022
    apt-get source xserver-xorg told me:
    Please use:
    git clone https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/debian/xorg
    to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.

    But:
    root@debian:~# apt install git
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    git : Depends: git-man (< 1:2.35.1-.) but 1:2.36.0-1 is to be installed
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
    root@debian:~#

    I should open a bug report for this?
    ,,, held broken packages
    root@debian:~# dpkg --configure -a
    root@debian:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
    root@debian:~#

    not sure what do do of that
    git-man would be the man page of git I think... might not be essential... but I feel I don`t understand really what is happening.

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  • From Samuel Thibault@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 29 01:00:01 2022
    Paul Dufresne, le jeu. 28 avril 2022 17:47:24 -0400, a ecrit:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    git : Depends: git-man (< 1:2.35.1-.) but 1:2.36.0-1 is to be installed
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
    root@debian:~#

    I should open a bug report for this?

    The actual bug is that the testsuite fails.

    From times to times I hand-build a package without the testsuite, but at
    some point somebody has to take the time to fix the actual bug.

    Samuel

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